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So What’s Eating You? Resorption Case Using an Aesthetic Abutment

INTRODUCTION One of the great challenges that we face in dentistry is matching a crown to a natural central incisor. There are many.

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Laser Removal of All-Ceramic Restorations: Solving a Difficult Clinical Challenge

INTRODUCTION I am a laser dentist who purchased my first pulsed dental laser in 1999. I immediately began successfully implementing and developing uses.

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Overcoming a Clinical Challenge: Detecting Caries Around Amalgam Restorations

Detecting caries around amalgam restorations is challenging. Typically, older amalgam restorations may cause some marginal staining, but visually, the margins may appear intact.

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Dental Digital Photography Update: A Report From the 2014 Chicago Midwinter Meeting

A Report From the 2014 Chicago Midwinter Meeting Hello all. After attending this year’s Chicago Midwinter Meeting, I am prepared to update you.

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Improving the Local Anesthesia Experience for Our Patients

Figure 1. Gate principal of nerve sensation and pain. Among healthcare professionals, dentists are often referred to as the local anesthesia experts, since.

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Using Digital Impressions and CAD/CAM in Implant Dentistry

INTRODUCTION Dentistry is undergoing a technology revolution, and traditional methods are being displaced at an increasing pace for new, more precise techniques. A.

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Cosmetic Gingivectomy Using Radiosurgery

INTRODUCTION Radiosurgery is used for cutting and coagulation of soft tissue in the oral cavity. A 4.0 MHz high radio frequency (RF) signal.

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Role for CAD/CAM in Forensics?

INTRODUCTION As the progression of technology accelerates, the profession of dentistry faces a dilemma: remain rigid and unchanged, or embrace the revolution. Although.

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Magnification Alternatives: Seeing is Believing, Part 2

INTRODUCTION Part one of this 2-part series focused on the resolving power of the human eye and how magnification could improve that resolving.

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Improving the Way to Detect Cracks in Teeth

Figure 1. The Canary System. INTRODUCTION Detecting cracks in teeth is one of the more challenging clinical situations. The “cracked tooth syndrome” was.

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