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Another Look at Root Canal Obturation

Many ingenious techniques have been devised for what should be a simple process of...

Recession-Proof Your Practice

Now that the economy is officially in a recession, is your practice feeling the...

Lifestyle Modifications and the Management of Hypertension

There is evidence suggesting that hypertension affects nearly 50 million Americans.1 A study reported...

Price Point Testing: How Do We Really Know What to Charge?

What is great clinical dentistry really worth? What’s it worth to you? Equally important,...

Differential Diagnosis of Severe Recurrent Oral Ulceration

Recurrent aphthous ulceration (RAU) also known as aphthous ulceration, recurrent aphthous stomatitis, or in...

Correction of an Aesthetic Problem Related to Excessive Display of Gingiva

Chiche and Pinault1 describe in their text, Esthetics of Anterior Fixed Prosthodontics, the artistic...

The Class III Posterior Composite Restoration

The class III restoration is nominally a “one-surface” restoration on the proximal contacting surface...

Maximum Success in an Anterior Makeover Using the Minimum Number of Restored Teeth

The contemporary approach to most generalized aesthetic problems in the maxillary anterior teeth is...

A System for Definitive Restoration of Single-Stage Implants in One Day

The classic approach to placing osseointegrated implants in the edentulous mandible requires a period...

Managing Money Flow to Safeguard Your Practice

I first met Dr. Don Lewis, an oral surgeon from Cleveland, Ohio, when he...