A look at where adhesives are today, and the progress being made toward suture-less surgery.
DIY Dentistry: How It Can Actually Benefit Your Practice
As dental professionals, it is our responsibility to guide our patients through this maze of promises, social media postings, and subtle, but aggressive, marketing psychology.
Integrated Treatment Planning for Smile Design
Ultimately, treatment planning is a series of decisions, and therefore a series of choices.
The War on COVID-19 Has Put Endodontists on the Front Line
By providing emergency dental treatment, we have the power to keep patients away from our overcrowded emergency rooms. But if we choose to offer this service, we have to be smart.
Vertical Root Fractures: The Diagnostic Dilemma and Hidden Menace
Why it’s so important to find root fractures before endodontic treatment, and how to do it.
3 Reasons You Should Be A Sedation Dentist
Offering sedation dentistry is not only rewarding, it opens up opportunities for practice growth.
Gain the Experience You Need to Place Implants with Confidence
These hands-on models will prepare you for a variety of implant cases—without having to get real patients involved until you’re ready.
Better Estimates, Better Results: Part 2
In the first installment of this two-part series, I discussed the value of estimating root length and offered insight into some unrecognized challenges that may affect case selection. But once cases are selected, the skill of establishing radiographic estimates continues to carry forward to clinical treatment.
Placing implants? Here’s What You Need to Know About Soft Tissue
Implants are replacements for teeth—they are not teeth. This might sound obvious, but it’s a simple reality implant surgeons must remember, as there are key differences between natural teeth and implants that must be observed. This simple yet complex arrangement is very strong, and is nourished by an abundant blood supply coming from the periodontal ligament and periosteum.