Why Study Occlusion
I’m a restorative dentist with a passion for occlusion. I’m a firm believer that our patients deserve our best efforts
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Occlusion
Functional Risk Part 3 – Occlusal Therapy
Why Occlusal Appliance Therapy Is My First Step Prior to Ortho, Equilibration, or Restorative Occlusal changes on an appliance are
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Changing VDO and Correcting Resultant Lisps
Many times, we need to increase the vertical dimension of occlusion (VDO) to put teeth where they should be esthetically
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Composites & Wear
All restorative materials have wear properties. We need to understand both how they wear and survive in the oral environment
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Tongue Position & Nose Breathing
When we nose breathe, our tongue is elevated against the anterior portion of the palate and held there with gentle
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Occlusal Wear Part 2: What is causing the wear?
I believe that some wear is normal. I base this on the fact that I have very few if any
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Occlusal Wear Part 1: Is it advancing? How fast?
I ask the question “Is wear normal?” at almost every lecture I do on occlusion. Usually the response is a
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Demystifying Occlusion
I’ll admit that for a portion of my professional career I didn’t think twice about occlusion. Today occlusion is as
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When Your Occlusal Clearance Disappears
It can be an incredibly frustrating clinical situation, when you have been meticulous about preparing a posterior tooth, (most commonly
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Do Patients Parafunction In Centric Relation?
Seated Condylar Position I know even the mention of the words centric relation probably has some readers bristling, as this
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Fleximount To Stabilize Lower Model
Learning from one another is one of the top benefits of dental continuing education. One of the things that I
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