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Is a picture worth 1000 words? Or is it worth FAR MORE? Capture the right pictures and capture the $2 million dollar practice.
Big case or small, fixed or removable, tremendous dentistry begins with tremendous impressions. Your material matters…your tray selection matters
How to track your anterior and esthetic success every time is an igniteDDS favorite and a major practice builder. Bring these four simple steps to your practice and see for yourself.
7 Deadly Sins of Smile Design. It’s one of my fave seminars to deliver. Today’s post…a quick excerpt from just one sin. Check it out and take a step closer to delivering some wicked anterior restorations
Retraction. There are many instances it makes our lives simpler. There are many strategies for success. That said, as a young dentist, it’s all too tempting after the daily clinic beatings in dental school to cut the dental umbilical cord from one’s armamentarium. Before you do, experience has taught me this…great habits deliver great results.
Great result deliver great success. So before you cut that cord, here’s a simple 5 step process to CRUSH your Restorative Success.
Same patients….same team….transformed bottom line!
Raise your hand if you’ve ever had an impression and LOVED it. Ya…no one does. So, if you want to make a great first impression for your patients sake…and let’s face it, your own sake, CHECK THIS OUT
Last month, I attended a restorative open house course at Ivoclar Vivadent’s North American Headquarters near Buffalo, NY. This hands on CE course covered direct restorations on the first day and indirect restorations on the second day.
One of the course presentations focused on cement choices for delivery of indirect restorations. If your dental school experience was similar to mine, you had dozens of pre-clinical lectures on crown prep design, cementation techniques, and biomaterials science. Then, when you finally started your first crown in the clinic you were given a select few options for cements and bonding agents. The choice was basically made for you. But once you’re out practicing independently, how will you decide which materials to use to lute your fixed restorations? Will you stick to the familiar cements you used in school or will you branch out to try other products? There are over 100 permanent cement brands on the market. How do you narrow it down to which are worth a try?
When it comes to taming the temporary restoration, there is no one size fits all situations. Anterior vs Posterior…Single unit vs Multiple…Crowns vs Veneers…Short term vs long: when you and I want to deliver our best to our patients, we need options.
Time…it’s arguably our most valuable commodity. You can make more of almost everything else in your dental practice when you think about it. So besides every other, well documented reason to stop impressioning and start scanning, let’s focus on what matters most…your time.
