Temporary Crowns Are an Occasion for Dental Patient Education
Another dentist asked me, “What temporary cement do you use so your temporary crowns actually stay on?” The cement I
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Author: Kelley Brummett DMD
3 Tips that Have Helped Me Manage Emergency Appointments
Here are three tips that have helped me in organizing my practice so we can best manage same-day emergency patients
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Two Tips for Placing Screw-Retained Implant Crowns
Most of us are placing implant crowns, using screw retained crowns. If the crown needs to be recovered, or the screw needs to be
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Many Don’t Realize Their Pain Is Abnormal
When working with participants at The Pankey Institute, I help them analyze dental cases to assess the risk for joint
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Using Mallampati Scores
Screening our patients for airway and breathing issues is becoming a standard in dentistry. One of the things we have
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Visit Your Dental Lab
Recently I went and spent time at the lab of my dental lab technician. I had heard that this was
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Chew Test to Discover Functional Interference
I had a patient in a provisional on tooth #7, and he called to tell me he ate the crown.
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Dental Anesthetic Needles
In dental school most of us learned to use the same two sizes and lengths of dental anesthetic needles. Once
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Case Study: Great Patient Expectations
Every successful dental case begins with a conversation. A Case of Great Dental Expectations “So what should we do next?”
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Thoughts on Becoming Perfect: Part 2
Dental failure and being ‘perfect’ in patient care is a key stressor for dentists. In her first blog on this
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Thoughts on Becoming Perfect: Part 1
Failure is a hard thing to accept in dentistry. This is especially true because what constitutes ‘failure’ can mean different
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