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How Home Care is Essential to Ensuring Successful Orthodontic Treatment Outcomes

t is important for the orthodontic practice to promote good oral home care by...

The Role of the Infection Control Coordinator

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the lead federal agency for...

Do Traditional Sealants Have a Place in the New, Super-Magnified World?

Traditional dental sealants, which have ostensibly become restorative dentistry’s most promoted preventive procedure, have...

The Eleven Essentials of Effective Staff Meetings, Part 2: Getting it Together in the Name of Customer Service

his article is part 2 of a 3-part series that describes the Essentials of...

How Bad Ads Can Undermine Good Practices: Get Your Message in Print Properly and New Patients Will Follow

“No Pain, No Gain!” the headline bellows. If the clichéd message in this ad...

The Clinical Use of Night Guards: Occlusal Objectives

Are you looking for ways to provide better service for your patients? Set yourself...

Everyday Uses of Adult Orthodontics

Moving teeth has been a dental treatment modality for decades and was perhaps the...

Full-Arch Fixed Prosthetics Supported by Dental Implants and Natural Teeth: Planning, Provisionalization, Treatment Sequences: Two Case Examples

When a patient presents with a partially edentulous arch, fixed restoration of the arch...

Techniques for Altering the Perception of Tooth Size

Subtle changes in the apparent size of teeth can be achieved by altering line...

Direct Composite Cavity Preparation Design and Finishing Using Carbide Burs

Cavity preparation designs for direct composite restorations are continually changing. These changes are due...