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Essential Photos to Achieve Predictable Outcomes - Lab Communication

Essential Photos to Achieve Predictable Outcomes - Lab Communication

These essential photos will ensure better communication with your lab and more successful final restorations.

| 8 years ago
Bringing Patients Comfort During Lengthy Dental Procedures

Bringing Patients Comfort During Lengthy Dental Procedures

One of our contributors shares his favorite device for avoiding TMJ trauma and frustration in the operatory during lengthy procedures.

| 8 years ago
Reusing Titanium Healing Abutments

Reusing Titanium Healing Abutments

You can reuse healing abutments, but should you? We look at the research surrounding contamination commercially available titanium healing abutments.

| 8 years ago
BULL Rule - Or Is It a Guideline?
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BULL Rule - Or Is It a Guideline?

According to the BULL rule, modification should be made to the buccal cusps of the upper posterior teeth and the lingual cusps of the lower posterior...

| 8 years ago
Sugar Is the Oral-Systemic Link
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Sugar Is the Oral-Systemic Link

We look at the research showing the effects of sugar on overall oral health and why dentists should focus on helping their patients change their eating...

| 8 years ago
Selecting the Right Provisional Cement

Selecting the Right Provisional Cement

We look at how to better select provisional cements by asking the right questions and understanding how each category works.

| 8 years ago
The Implant Working Cast: 4 Steps for Fabricating a Stone Cast

The Implant Working Cast: 4 Steps for Fabricating a Stone Cast

We break down fabricating a stone working cast into four easy-to-follow steps and compare the technique with soft-tissue casts.

| 8 years ago
Six Tips to Improve Your Occlusal Photographs
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Six Tips to Improve Your Occlusal Photographs

These dental photography tips will help you improve your output, which in turn should help improve case acceptance rates.

| 8 years ago
9 Steps to a Facebow Transfer

9 Steps to a Facebow Transfer

A step-by-step guide to facebow transfers, as well as recommendations on articulators.

| 8 years ago
Cementation of Full-contour Zirconia Restorations
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Cementation of Full-contour Zirconia Restorations

Learn more about full-contour zirconia restorations in our latest article.

| 8 years ago
These 4 Questions Can Save Your Patient’s Life

These 4 Questions Can Save Your Patient’s Life

Using the STOP-Bang Sleep Apnea Questionnaire in your dental practice could help you more easily diagnose obstructive sleep apnea in your patients.

| 8 years ago
Two Steps to Better Bonding in Dental Restorations

Two Steps to Better Bonding in Dental Restorations

Besides the two steps to better bonding, we also cover solutions to potential problems with etching and silane application.

| 8 years ago