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Blue-Collar Cosmetics: Alternative Approaches to Building Beautiful Smiles

Rich or poor, most Americans have televisions. Like it or not, TV is America’s...

Altering and Controlling Osseous Architecture to Achieve an Aesthetic Dentition

We as dental clinicians are accustomed to altering bone to eliminate periodontal osseous defects...

Treatment Planning for Dental Implants: A Rationale for Decision Making, Part 2: Partial Edentulism

A previous review1 considered the factors involved in the decision of whether to extract...

Banking Teeth for Stem Cells

Deciduous and wisdom teeth, along with jawbone and periodontal ligament, are noncontroversial sources of...

Cigarette Smoking Among Adults

One of the national health objectives for 2010 is to reduce the prevalence of...

Osseointegration and Irradiated Cancer Patients

There is debate among clinicians regarding the placement of implants in patients who have...

Plaque Bacteria and Heart Attacks

Researchers have found evidence that the amount of bacteria in subgingival plaque may contribute...

Root-End Fillings and Microleakage

Many materials have been evaluated for use as root-end fillings in the event conventional...

Cyber Solutions to Practice Problems

From online training to digital overhead control to collections that click, today’s thriving dental...

Becoming A Fee-for-Service Dental Practice

Many dental practices can eliminate patient billing and become a fee-for-service business. It requires...