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Digital Panoramic Radiography: Improving Efficiency in Patient Care

What makes some practices sparkle, while others may be comfortable for the dentist but...

Identifying, Diagnosing, and Treating Dentin Hypersensitivity

Dentin hypersensitivity may be greatly impacting your patients, although they may not tell you...

Management of the Coronal Third: Progressively and Passively

For many, entry into and instrumentation of the coronal third of root canal systems...

You Are What You Write

Does your documentation reflect what you really do? It has been said many times,...

Using Intraoral Gothic Arch Tracing to Balance Full Dentures and Determine Centric Relation and Occlusal Vertical Dimension

The ability to establish an accurate, verifiable, and reproducible occlusal vertical dimension (OVD) and...

Utilizing Reversible-Irreversible Hydrocolloid Impressions for Composite Onlays

Obtaining an accurate impression is a critical aspect of treatment to provide an indirect...

Impression Distortion…Only a Technical Problem? A Doctor/Technician Liaison’s Perspective

If you are lucky, impression distortion is major, and you can see it. But...

Athletic Mouthguards: Indications, Types, and Benefits

More than 5 million teeth are avulsed each year due to sports injuries and...

Botulism Toxin: Use in Disorders of the Temporomandibular Joint

Botulism toxin (BTX) is produced during the growth and autolysis of the strictly anaerobic,...

Aesthetic Veneer Restoration of an Anterior Dentition Postorthodontics Complicated by Ankylosis

There are many treatment alternatives for the conservative clinical management of noncarious enamel defects...