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A Strategy for Correcting Poor Anterior Aesthetics A Case Study

Difficult aesthetic challenges frequently present to dental offices. Often, the skills of several dental...

Prerestorative Periodontal Plastic Surgery Creating the Gingival Framework for the Ideal Smile

It has been said that a beautiful painting or photograph is enhanced by the...

The Tobacco-Using Patient and the Dental Office

As a primary care clinician, the dentist should identify and be prepared to intervene...

The Human Side of Technology: A Team-wide Look at the Implementation “Game”

In 1980, Dick Vermeil led the Phila­delphia Eagles to the Super Bowl against the...

Rotary Nickel Titanium Instrumentation

In the past decade, rotary nickel titanium instrumentation, together with development and refinement of...

Treating the “Whole Patient” Builds the Practice

Considering the advances in technology over the last 10 years, dentistry today is much...

Selection and Use of Masks

The use of facemasks was first advocated at the end of the 19th century....

Hiring Practices—Not So Fast

Most dental practitioners are reasonably well versed about the possible pitfalls attendant to a...

New Directions in Dentistry

For the first time in my career, my wife and I have had the...

Early Orthodontics: 5 New Steps To Better Care

Abstract: Five new functional concepts for earlier diagnosis and treatment of orthodontic and orthopedic...