Think Like an Endodontist and “ReThink” Your Approach to Endodontics
NuEndo ReThinking Endodontics, is 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,...
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....
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....
Practical Intelligence: How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Dentistry for the Better
Dr. Parag Kachalia, DDS, doesn’t think artificial intelligence (AI) will decimate the dental industry—in fact, he sees this emerging technology as a major benefit to the field—and one that may enable more humanistic interaction in the long run....
The Rubber Dam Equation—Why Cutting Corners Just Won’t Cut It
Using the right kind of clamp during a dental procedure can mean the difference between an expert result and a patient returning to the chair, dissatisfied—or worse yet, in pain....
Advancing Adhesives
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....
New Update: THE PANDEMIC AND THE DENTIST
Practical recommendations for the dental professional...
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....
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...
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 1
Using digital radiography to estimate pre-operative root lengths can help clinicians better evaluate endodontic cases. An estimate is nothing more than a prediction. It is an approximation or projection of something based on experience and/or...
The Importance of Assessing Facial Esthetics: An Insight for Dentists
Three key rules to consider for whole face beautification and optimal long-term results. Despite being a cosmetic surgeon focused on injectable based treatments, I have come to appreciate the importance of a beautiful smile and the role it plays...
Bad to the Bone Part II: Antiresorptive Medications and Medication Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaw
Oral surgical procedures necessitate some degree of trauma to the bone in the upper and lower jaws. When the patient is taking prescribed medications that impact how bone heals after dental surgery, the potential for medication-related...
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...
What Do You Know About The Dahl Principle?
This minimally invasive treatment isn’t used often, but it can be a great affordable option for patients experiencing wear. The Dahl Principle is a technique taught in the UK but not widely understood around the world. There certainly are...
New Drugs You MUST learn to Master: Pradaxa, Xarelto, Eliquis and Savaysa
Doctors are starting to prescribe these drugs for anticoagulation instead of Coumadin. Here’s what you need to know about them. Much like for patients taking Coumadin (Warfarin), these drugs can be continued for simple dental procedures. In...
Transsinus Implants: A Minimally Invasive Procedure For The Atrophic Maxilla
How to incorporate this three-step procedure into your practice. The possibility of rehabilitating an arch with a fixed prosthesis with predictable long-term success has been an important goal in dentistry.2 However, the rehabilitation of a...
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....
Combining Facial Esthetics and Cosmetic Dentistry = Your Best Look
How looking at the whole face opens up new opportunities for dental practices and leads to better patient outcomes. Dentists have been dabbling in injectable esthetic procedures for more than a decade now. We have been talking about facially...
What Dentists Need to Know About Antiresorptive Medications and Medication Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaw: Part I
A look at the medications that lead to issues and how you can combat problems in your patients. Normal responses to bone injury involve a complex system of metabolic processes that lead to remodeling, which is the removal of injured or necrotic...
Combining Cosmetic Dentistry and Facial Esthetics Under One Roof: Is This the Future?
The role, which I held for three and a half years, gave me unprecedented access to how the esthetics market is evolving and those within it adapting. Following this spell, I decided to head back into full time clinical practice, and I now...
Emergency Preparedness: Do You Have a Plan In Place?
While medical emergencies occur infrequently, they are 5.8 times more likely to happen in the dental office than in the medical office. Increasingly, more complicated patients are presenting to the dental office for procedures that are often...
Predictable Implant Placement in the GP Practice
The availability of various technologies has made it possible to “think traditional but process digital,” allowing more general dentists to integrate dental implant treatments into their practices. However, successful implant treatments are...
A Must-Read Book! Esthetic Rehabilitation in Fixed Prosthodontics
Dr. Fradeani’s esthetic checklist, which is included in this amply illustrated book, is an invaluable tool that guides dentists in creating restorations perfectly integrated from both an esthetic and functional point of view. Volume one is an...
Orthodontics or Ortho-Restorative Dentistry?
I have heard people say it is dangerous for general dentists to carry out orthodontics. If they don’t have an understanding of the full benefits of orthodontics and how to diagnose and assess, then there may be some truth to that. However, I...
Dentistry that Attracts New Patients
Attracting new patients is something many dentists struggle with—no matter how many years they’ve been practicing. This can be especially difficult for new dentists, however, as they’re still trying to figure out the best services to offer and...
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....
Think Like an Endodontist and “ReThink” Your Approach to Endodontics
NuEndo ReThinking Endodontics, is 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,...
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....
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....
Practical Intelligence: How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Dentistry for the Better
Dr. Parag Kachalia, DDS, doesn’t think artificial intelligence (AI) will decimate the dental industry—in fact, he sees this emerging technology as a major benefit to the field—and one that may enable more...
The Rubber Dam Equation—Why Cutting Corners Just Won’t Cut It
Using the right kind of clamp during a dental procedure can mean the difference between an expert result and a patient returning to the chair, dissatisfied—or worse yet, in pain....
Advancing Adhesives
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....
New Update: THE PANDEMIC AND THE DENTIST
Practical recommendations for the dental professional...
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...
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...
Bad to the Bone Part II: Antiresorptive Medications and Medication Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaw
Oral surgical procedures necessitate some degree of trauma to the bone in the upper and lower jaws. When the patient is taking prescribed medications that impact how bone heals after dental surgery, the...
The Importance of Assessing Facial Esthetics: An Insight for Dentists
Three key rules to consider for whole face beautification and optimal long-term results. Despite being a cosmetic surgeon focused on injectable based treatments, I have come to appreciate the importance of a...
Better Estimates, Better Results: Part 1
Using digital radiography to estimate pre-operative root lengths can help clinicians better evaluate endodontic cases. An estimate is nothing more than a prediction. It is an approximation or projection of...
New Drugs You MUST learn to Master: Pradaxa, Xarelto, Eliquis and Savaysa
Doctors are starting to prescribe these drugs for anticoagulation instead of Coumadin. Here’s what you need to know about them. Much like for patients taking Coumadin (Warfarin), these drugs can be continued...
What Do You Know About The Dahl Principle?
This minimally invasive treatment isn’t used often, but it can be a great affordable option for patients experiencing wear. The Dahl Principle is a technique taught in the UK but not widely understood around...
Transsinus Implants: A Minimally Invasive Procedure For The Atrophic Maxilla
How to incorporate this three-step procedure into your practice. The possibility of rehabilitating an arch with a fixed prosthesis with predictable long-term success has been an important goal in dentistry.2...
Combining Facial Esthetics and Cosmetic Dentistry = Your Best Look
How looking at the whole face opens up new opportunities for dental practices and leads to better patient outcomes. Dentists have been dabbling in injectable esthetic procedures for more than a decade now. We...
What Dentists Need to Know About Antiresorptive Medications and Medication Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaw: Part I
A look at the medications that lead to issues and how you can combat problems in your patients. Normal responses to bone injury involve a complex system of metabolic processes that lead to remodeling, which is...
Combining Cosmetic Dentistry and Facial Esthetics Under One Roof: Is This the Future?
The role, which I held for three and a half years, gave me unprecedented access to how the esthetics market is evolving and those within it adapting. Following this spell, I decided to head back into full time...
Emergency Preparedness: Do You Have a Plan In Place?
While medical emergencies occur infrequently, they are 5.8 times more likely to happen in the dental office than in the medical office. Increasingly, more complicated patients are presenting to the dental...
Predictable Implant Placement in the GP Practice
The availability of various technologies has made it possible to “think traditional but process digital,” allowing more general dentists to integrate dental implant treatments into their practices. However,...
A Must-Read Book! Esthetic Rehabilitation in Fixed Prosthodontics
Dr. Fradeani’s esthetic checklist, which is included in this amply illustrated book, is an invaluable tool that guides dentists in creating restorations perfectly integrated from both an esthetic and functional point of view. Volume one is an...
Orthodontics or Ortho-Restorative Dentistry?
I have heard people say it is dangerous for general dentists to carry out orthodontics. If they don’t have an understanding of the full benefits of orthodontics and how to diagnose and assess, then there may...
Dentistry that Attracts New Patients
Attracting new patients is something many dentists struggle with—no matter how many years they’ve been practicing. This can be especially difficult for new dentists, however, as they’re still trying to figure...
Products That Improve Case Acceptance
No matter how much experience you have as a dentist, getting patients to accept treatment can be challenging. Patients are always looking for reasons to say no, and often convince themselves they don’t need...
What’s Your Perio Protocol?
Establish a perio protocol that helps ensure your patients get the care they need while you grow your practice....
Rethinking Endodontics!
For the general dentist and the experienced endodontist alike, this book is a guide and a reference tool for the complex processes of endodontic diagnosis, prognosis, and case selection. Understand the dynamics of the pulpal-dentin complex, the underlying conditions related to pulpal and periapical disease, and the methods surrounding its...