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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...

Direct Composite Cavity Preparation Design and Finishing Using Carbide Burs

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

Steps to Redesign Smiles Using Current Technology and Materials

Figure 1. Preoperative maxillary labial view. Figure 2. Preoperative maxillary anterior radiographs. Figure 3....

Ten Administrative Tasks for Your Computer Network

It may seem like there are not enough hours in a day to get...

The Lighter Side of “Bread-and-Butter Dentistry”

With all of the excitement in the media concerning cosmetic dental makeovers and “spa...

Aesthetic Restorations Made Predictable With New Technology

Advances in dental technology and cosmetic dentistry have helped solve the problems of patients,...

Predictable Contacts With Composite Resins

Contemporary dentistry dictates a new paradigm in restoring posterior teeth. Historically, since the middle...

Direct Preparation of Preexisting Implant Abutments

Dental implants have been used with great success as root replacements in oral reconstruction....

New Directions in Dentistry

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

An Innovative, Heat-Accelerated, In-Office Whitening Technique for Nonvital Teeth

Figure 1. Pretreatment view. A single anterior incisor that has darkened following endodontic treatment...