Arc of Rotation & Heavy Posterior Contacts
Have you ever had a night guard or other full coverage dental device come back with contact only in the
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Dentistry
My Journey in Dental Ethics – Inspiration
Excerpt from an essay first published in the Journal of the American College of Dentists, Fall 2011 The introduction to
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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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Polishing Indirect Preparations
The question of whether it is better to have a rough or smooth tooth preparation for indirect restorations pops up
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How to Move Toward Independence in Dentistry (Part 2)
Mastery sits atop L. D. Pankey’s Ladder of Competency. The question is how does one achieve mastery? Once again it
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How to Move Towards Independence in Dentistry (Part 1)
Happiness for me in dentistry was always doing my best for patients who appreciated and wanted the best dentistry. When
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From Your Practice to the Lab – Continuation of a Philosophy of Treatment
This blog is a precursor for the long lecture I will do on this topic at the 2021 Pankey Symposium.
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The Risks of Anterior-Only Appliances
I was at the Ontario Dental Society meeting giving a presentation on occlusion, and I was asked one of the
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2 Transformative Tips to Leverage Phased Therapy for Single Tooth Dentistry
One of the greatest challenges of dentistry is developing a conceptual framework for how to approach complex cases. We leave
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Using Topical for Optimal Patient Comfort
In a previous blog, I wrote about how we use multiple flavors of topical in my dental practice and the
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Is Topical Cannabidiol (CBD) for Temporomandibular Joint Pain a Fad or the Future of Treatment?
Cannabidiol, commonly known as CBD, is getting significant attention in new advances of pain management for its non-psychoactive therapeutic properties.
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