Light Savers: Understanding Variables in Shade Selection
Color is experienced through our eyes. An understanding of our physiology is basic to the application of the principles of color science and shade selection...
Martin Mendelson | 11 years ago ›
An Unlikely Material That Can Save Your Practice Money
So I went into my local hardware store and asked for plumber's tape, commonly known as the brand name Teflon. The guy behind the counter says to me, 'So...
Darin O'Bryan | 11 years ago ›
When you have a guest over who is visiting your home for the first time, do you give them a tour of the house? It's sort of a traditional thing for a...
Imtiaz Manji | 11 years ago ›
When a Diamond Strip Works Best
One of the most common procedures in clinical dentistry is a Class II direct restoration. Most of us are using resin or composite as our material of...
Jeff Lineberry | 11 years ago ›
The COLLAGEN EATERS have been released! When you prep a tooth, actually, when you create injury to any bodily tissue, some stuff called matrix metalloproteinases...
Gary DeWood | 11 years ago ›
Seating and Adjusting: Why is Bigger Sometimes Easier?
Shortly after I seated the case shown here I was talking with a friend about the experience and marveling at how little occlusal adjustment I had to complete.
Gary DeWood | 11 years ago ›
I imagine that every dentist has at one time or another caught a plastic removable appliance (flipper) on a rag wheel and spun it into oblivion. It's...
Mary Anne Salcetti | 11 years ago ›
We look at how cone beam CT helped better prepare a dentist and surgeon for implant placement surgery.
Steve Ratcliff | 11 years ago ›
The ingenius treatment planning template created by Frank Spear many years ago has been added to. The template gives the restorative dentist a visual...
Gary DeWood | 11 years ago ›
Thinking Outside the Box: Orthodontic Substitution
In certain cases with young patients, traditional therapy can be inadequate or even impossible. In a recent article, I discussed the autotransplantation...
Mark Fleming, D.D.S. | 11 years ago ›
Learn techniques to get predictable results every time when taking patient bite records.
Martin Mendelson | 11 years ago ›
In restorative dentistry there are certain requirements needed to fabricate restorations that will meet our needs as well as those of our patients....
Jeff Lineberry | 12 years ago ›