Restorative

Cap It? Or Wrap It?

Reconstruction of teeth by filling and capping them has been amply recorded in various...

Current Clinical Solutions For a Single Missing Tooth: MID Techniques

The single missing tooth always presents treating dentists with multiple treatment options to consider...

Is All Minimally Invasive Dentistry Better Dentistry?

Just the other day a company car belonging to a local dentist drove by....

Digital Photography: Make It Your Lifeline!

While the 2009 baseball season is under way as you read this, it is...

Composite Resin Materials: Nano-What?

When the dental profession started to use composite resins, there was only one type...

Comprehensive Dentistry Using Chairside CAD/CAM Technology: A Case Report

Computer-aided design (CAD)/computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) is taking over dentistry. That’s a bold opening statement,...

Copy Existing Tooth Form to Retrofit to an RPD Accurately: An Ideal CAD/CAM Application

One of the most vexing and difficult procedures in restorative dentistry is that of...

Golden Rules for Successful Composite Resin Restorations

Very often, colleagues and students ask me, “What is the best composite to use?”...

Full-Mouth Reconstruction of Bulimic-Ravaged Teeth Using Direct Composites: A Case Presentation

A female patient, “Mary”, over 50-years-old, in declared good health except for body weight,...

Simplifying Finishing and Polishing Techniques for Direct Composite Restorations

There are no “standard” techniques in place for finishing and polishing composite resins. “All...