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Improving the Stability of Maxillary Dentures: The Use of Polyvinyl Siloxane Impression Materials for Edentulous Impressions

The fabrication of complete removable dentures has evolved noticeably over the last 15 years...

Microscope-Enhanced Aesthetic Dentistry

One of America’s best-known architects, Frank Lloyd Wright, once said, “The physician can bury...

Simplifying Single-Stage Solid Abutments: Techniques for Impressioning and Temporization

Single-stage implants are being utilized more frequently. Currently, Straumann ITI, Lifecore Biomedical, Sulzer Paragon,...

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...

Treatment Options for a Congenitally Missing Lateral Incisor

Figure 1. The patient has abundant keratinized tissue and bone, but has limited interdental...

Steps to Redesign Smiles Using Current Technology and Materials

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

Improving Accuracy and Simplifying Treatment With Full Arch Removable Prosthetics: A Case Report

Patients who are currently wearing full arch removable prostheses may present requesting new dentures....

The Operating Microscope and Ultrasonics; a Perfect Marriage

Clinicians who make the leap to microscope-centered dentistry often make this statement: “I can’t...

Maximizing Available Options to Embrace “Less Is Best”

A healthy 21-year-old presents to your office with a history of trauma to the...

New Directions in Dentistry

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