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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Treatment Planning
My Exam to Treatment Planning Structure
Before I come up with a treatment plan, I always do certain things in a certain order. That structure has
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Did Someone Say, Treatment Planting?
There is a practice in Ohio I recently work with, in which the dentist and a young hygienist were having
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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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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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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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Planning Where The Pink Should Be
When we identify patients, whose dental esthetics has been negatively impacted by altered passive eruption, our treatment plans are apt to
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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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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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Tooth Proportion Aesthetic Ratio
One of the challenges of aesthetic dentistry is setting clear expectations for patients. The more we can use visual tools
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