CLINICAL
2025-02-28
Laser Treatment and Peri-Implantitis: Why, When and How?
I've used lasers for more than seven years on over 400 implants with peri-implantitis. Through these experiences, I developed a treatment strategy and therapeutic approach, which I named the APARA Protocol (Assessment of Peri-implantitis Appearance and Repairing Approach) using lasers.
2024-12-05
Root Canal Treatment: Radix Entomolaris
Dr. Nudera discusses non-surgical root canal treatment on a tooth with a classic entomolaris root configuration. This case involved tooth #30, referred for treatment and evaluation due to severe pain. The patient, seen on an emergency basis, had a full-coverage restoration placed three months ago.
2024-09-24
Measuring Tooth Wear: How To Use a Simple Index
Tooth wear is an increasingly common condition in modern dentistry, with more patients presenting signs of erosion, attrition, and abrasion. As a result, clinicians need a standardized method for assessing tooth wear that is both simple and reliable.
2024-09-18
How a Personal Health Crisis Transformed My Approach to Dentistry
In 2018, life seemed perfect. My dental practice was booming, my family was healthy, and I was living the American Dream—the first and only dentist in my family after moving to the U.S. from Vietnam at 15. Then, everything changed overnight. I woke up to a face I barely recognized, swollen and covered in a rash.
2024-08-12
Get Your Dental Lab Questions Answered!
Do you have pressing questions about dental lab procedures, materials, or technology? Have you ever wondered how to choose the best materials for crowns and bridges, or how to ensure accurate shade matching for your patients? Maybe you're curious about the latest advancements in dental lab technology and how they can benefit your practice.
2024-04-09
Implant Dentistry: A Solution for Working Dental Moms?
As a woman in dentistry, I've witnessed strides in representation, yet the challenges of career breaks for motherhood persist. Does implant dentistry offer fulfillment and furthers gender equality? Join me in exploring these issues and contribute to our survey!
2024-04-09
Exploring the Frontiers of Pediatric Dental Sleep Medicine
Discover how dental professionals play a crucial role in identifying and treating sleep disorders in children. Learn to recognize early signs and symptoms of sleep-disordered breathing, explore diagnostic techniques, and uncover therapeutic interventions.
2023-12-12
Does Tooth Wear Matter?
We often think of tooth wear as a natural part of aging; teeth flattened by attrition, incisors shortening with age and teeth developing wear facets. Isn’t it just a function of time and circumstance in the mouth?
2023-11-07
Enhance Your Treatment Predictability with Dr. William Nudera
Conventional endodontic education often oversimplifies the process, boiling it down three steps: shaping, cleaning, and sealing the root canal system. This broad approach doesn't account for the complex subtleties that are vital for mastering the art of endodontics.
2023-11-05
Let's Talk About Mock-Ups
In Dr. Amanda Seay's practice, mock-ups play a significant role, serving two distinct purposes. First, they are instrumental in showcasing possibilities to our patients and promoting dentistry. Second, they are essential for evaluating shade, layering, and overall treatment outcomes after a patient has accepted the proposed plan.
2023-09-26
Understanding Balance and Harmony in Smile Design
A smile is beautiful when it is seen in the context of expression within an individual’s face. As dentists, we often focus on the tooth-by-tooth detail, but sometimes, it pays to take a step back and consider the entire expression.
2023-07-11
Step Inside Dr. Nudera's Office
See how the root canal technique is systematically executed in Dr. Nudera's office. Watch as he interacts with patients and understand the rationale behind every decision.
2023-03-16
A Different Approach to Orthodontics
See the bigger picture: Dr. David Sarver teaches dentists to go beyond just looking at problems with the teeth and to instead look at the dentofacial complex. This means considering how changing the smile might alter the face and what other treatment, such as rhinoplasty, patients might need to truly get the results they’re after.
2022-10-10
Low-Tech, High-Skill Treatment in a Digital World
With the addition of technology comes expense. New technology may look wonderful and is great for the advancement of our profession, but it isn’t always practical for patients’ budgets. We have to consider other treatment avenues that still deliver the same desired results.
2022-07-01
Think Like an Endodontist and “ReThink” Your Approach to Endodontics
I have thought about this from every angle imaginable— why?— so you don’t have to.
2022-06-29
What Is the Real Cost of Implant Failure?
Everyone has had a procedure in their office that has failed. Some things are minor like a chipped resin or a crown popping off, but a failed implant is a catastrophe.
2022-06-25
The Importance of Light Reflection in Smile Design
Systematically analyzing smiles using smile design principles as a guide will help dentists recognize what can be changed to influence visual perception, leading to a better outcome for patients.
2022-06-23
Is Dentistry’s Holy Trinity Enough?
“If you brush, floss and come see us twice a year everything is going to be alright” is a dental sin. You may be a non-believer, but statistics prove me right. 47.2% of all adults have some form of periodontal disease.
2022-06-21
Prints Charming: How Emerging Technology Is Changing the Patient Experience
While the equipment used in modern dentistry has always required dentists to have some degree of tech-savviness, the increasing prevalence of 3D-printed dentures is creating a sea change in the industry.
2022-06-19
Advancing Adhesives
A look at where adhesives are today, and the progress being made toward suture-less surgery.
2022-06-13
NOACs: New Drugs You Cannot Afford Not to Master
Doctors are starting to prescribe these drugs for anticoagulation instead of Coumadin. Here’s what you need to know about them.
2022-06-11
Transsinus implants: A minimally invasive procedure for the atrophic maxilla
How to incorporate this three-step procedure into your practice.
2022-06-09
Vertical Root Fractures: The Diagnostic Dilemma and Hidden Menace
Why it’s so important to find root fractures before endodontic treatment.
2022-06-07
Placing implants? Here’s What You Need to Know About Soft Tissue
Dentistry has an obligation to advance the science of dental implants in armentarium, diagnosis and surgical technique. The future is bright for our patients as long as we, as the therapists, respect the biologic basics of the system we’re treating.
2022-06-05
Integrated Treatment Planning for Smile Design
Ultimately, treatment planning is a series of decisions, and therefore a series of choices.
2022-06-03
Better Estimates, Better Results: Part 1
Using digital radiography to estimate pre-operative root lengths can help clinicians better evaluate endodontic cases.
2022-06-01
Better Estimates, Better Results: Part 2
The ability to leverage these images for the purposes of length and depth estimates can significantly improve predictability in the early phases of endodontic treatment.
2022-05-30
Emergency Preparedness: Do you have a plan in place?
While there are fancy drug kits you can purchase; it is important to understand that six drugs alone can bail you out of 95% of all medical emergencies.
2022-05-22
Adjust Your Style: A New Perspective on Treatment Planning
Understanding generational differences will lead to better communication with your patients and increased case acceptance.
The Aurum Advantage
The Aurum Group is more than a dental lab—it’s a partner in success. Beyond creating exceptional restorations, Aurum offers education and resources to help dentists grow professionally. With a focus on collaboration, they empower practices to achieve greater success and patient satisfaction.
NuEndo ReThinking Endodontics
The first of its kind resource that uses easy-to-follow systems designed to simplify the complex process of endodontic diagnosis and case selection. The guide leads you through a series of well-organized, logical flow charts aimed to sharpen your diagnostic efficiency and prognostic predictability.
A Smile Where There Was None
Discover the world of fixed full-arch implant dentistry through the expertise of Dr. Christian Yaste. This guide showcases 400 successful implant cases. Dr. Yaste has meticulously explored and applied various full-arch stackable surgical guide systems, refining a process that ensures effective and efficient treatment.