Posted February 7, 2018
By August de Oliveira, DDS
A lot of us are anxiously waiting to get our hands on the Katana blocks coming out in March which are multi colored Zirconia which supposedly has translucency similar to Emax. Todd and I were at the IDS in 2017 where they announced it. 30 minutes in the speed fire. About 750 Mpa compared to…
Posted January 29, 2018
By August de Oliveira, DDS
If you have read some of my implant posts you may know that I am a big fan of immediate molars. Its easy to “sell” to patients as they are coming in with a non restorable tooth, and usually don’t want to wait an extra 3 months on top of the extraction and graft, for…
Posted January 17, 2018
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Pretty old hat by now, but hey what the heck. Another guided CEREC Guide 2 case. As you may or may not know, Inlab can export CEREC Guide 2 to STL, but we don’t have that capability chaired. So you can send to an Inlab provider for about $20 and print it yourself for $5…
Posted January 16, 2018
By August de Oliveira, DDS
This was a fun case where I got to play with all my toys!! As many know CEREC can only export models as STLs but if you go with an Inlab provider you can get it converted. #5 extracted and grafted with MFDBA a while back. Planned in CEREC and Galileos and sent to an…
Posted January 8, 2018
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Here is another “kitchen sink” case where I got to use a few different technologies, CEREC, ExoCAD and the Asiga Max printer. #30 I did a non guided immediate molar implant. Didn’t get around to shaping the tissue so excuse the heme. Emax LT with an Implant Direct (TSV 5.7) scan post. The white…
Posted December 14, 2017
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Get it? “Tooth Hurty”? Ok I’ll stick to dentistry. DS Sirona has been working on an Endo suite for Galileos and I have been dying to try it out, but we are still awaiting the arrival. So for now, I had to come up with a way. Now when I first heard about Endo guide,…
Posted December 5, 2017
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Computerized Smile Design is all the rage and I have been dying to take a course. But if you have been 3D printing you know my buddy Cristian Brenes. His Tooth and Pontic Library are legendary in Meshmixer and he has just one upped himself with the Christian Brenes Smile Overlay Library. This…
Posted November 15, 2017
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Another 3D printed night guard, but this one had a twist to it. This patient has been missing #9 for 60 years and has always worn a flipper. He has zero desire to restore it and says he can’t sleep without it. Obviously needed a night guard so we made one on top of it!…
Posted November 9, 2017
By August de Oliveira, DDS
One really cool thing you can do with a CEREC STL is 3D print whats called a Geller model, which has ditched dies that can be popped in and out of the model. ExoCAD’s model builder program can take your STL and design a Geller model is just a few minutes. This was taken off…
Posted November 8, 2017
By August de Oliveira, DDS
I am not even going to pretend to know much about Occlusion, so please take this post with a grain of salt. One thing that is great about CEREC restorations is that you need to go back and study dental anatomy to make a nice crown. Now that I am making a lot of my…
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