Dental Risk Factors: Management Versus Treatment
One of the most important things I aim to do is create clear expectations for my dental patients. Over the
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Treatment Planning
Easy to Mount Printed Dental Models
In my dental practice, we often use mounted models for diagnostics and restorative treatment planning. Three years ago, we began
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Tricky Questions About Orofacial Pain You Encounter in the Dental Office
Orofacial pain is one of the greatest diagnostic challenges that exists in the modern dental practice. It takes a keen
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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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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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Acute Versus Chronic Dental Pain During COVID-19
During this time, while we are working through COVID-19 in our dental practices, some of you are helping patients in
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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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