How Long Does a Crown Last?
How long does a dental crown last? The answer is, “It depends.” In this blog, I will review how I
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Dentistry
The Jaws Syndrome: Can We Go into the Water Yet?
I bet many of us feel like we are living in a movie these days. I’m sure you have compared
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Understanding Tooth Ferrule
Ferrule is a critical factor in being able to plan the prosthodontic phase of treatment for an anterior tooth that
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Dentistry Post Corona: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Great Pandemic of 2020 has created mass disruption in the lives and work for most people. In a current
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Preoperative Dental Rinsing: What You Need to Know
I think pre-operative rinsing is here to stay. Science supports it is effective against viruses, including COVID19. And it is
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How I Use Mallampati Scores for Airway Screening
In 2017 the American Dental Association adopted a policy encouraging dentists to screen patients for sleep-related breathing disorders (SRBD). This
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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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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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I’ve Learned a Lot About Face Shields
Most dentists have some stories about buying and trying different types of face shields as we have started to practice
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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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