Digital Hybrids are hard! Experience comes from making mistakes, and lets say I got a lot of experience here. The promise of digital imaging for implants is that we can bypass messy impressions and even messier luted jigs and pick up impressions for a corrected cast. In this case I wanted to see if we could…
CEREC Primescan 5.1 Abutments: The Movie!!
In this video I will go through all the steps to get beautiful custom abutments and screw retained crowns with CEREC Primescan 5.1. If you want to learn more in a hands on live patient environment, come to my Digital Implantology with CEREC course in Phoenix Fev 20-22, 2020 at Implant Pathways! Click on the…
3D Printed Implant Analog Model with Gingival Mask
In this video I cover everything involved in printing an implant analog model from an intra oral scan including the gingival mask. We are doing a CEREC Live Patient Implant Course in Phoenix where we will cover CEREC Guide 2, Scanning with Scan Posts for Abutments and Crowns, as well as demoing full…
CEREC Primescan Digital Denture!
Its been fun seeing just what you can scan with CEREC Primescan! If you have tried to scan a denture in Omnicam, you know the frustration! To date, the best way to do a digital denture is to do a border molded impression within the patient’s existing denture, using the teeth…
CEREC Hybrid with Legacy 2 Implants
Wow, this case was cool!! Edentulous upper, partial on the lower. Planned in Dentiq Guide, with a printed guide. Left the teeth on the right to anchor and free handed these and his uppers. Use a bunch of Legacy 2s also on the upper and will screwed on MUAs after healing and the new Implant…
Purple Guides Are Key: Keystone Key Guide Resin Case Printed on Moonray final Primescan Mini Hybrid
Here is a case that didn’t go as planned, but we are still going to end up with a good result. Patient presented with two implants in the #24,25 spot with some bone loss. These were placed out of the country and upon unscrewing, seemed to be kinda Zimmer. Obviously too close together and not…
X..Man: DTX Studio and Sprintray Pro Guided Case
Been posting a bit on digital hybrids, so it was a nice change to get back to my roots and post about Guided Surgery!! Got a chance to try out Nobel’s new DTX Studio which will replace Nobel Clinician and the new version has the ability to export to STL for $50. Super impressive software…
You Can’t Do That! Implant Level, Overdenture to Fixed Hybrid with Cemented Ti Base from the Brighterway Institute Bite printed on Moonray S
The world of all digital, model free Hybrids is a bit like the Wild West these days. First, there is almost zero literature on the subject. Second we have docs that do it every day, and docs on the sidelines with there arms cross s=telling you you can’t do it. It doesn’t work. Its not…
Primescan, Sprintray Pro and Exceed Ortho are a Stand Up Operation: Vertical Printed Aligner Models on the Sprintray Pro
Printing Aligners in your office is a win win for everyone. Patients get their aligners quicker and you can replace them easily if they lose them. Its great for the office as most cases cost about $300 for around 20 aligners vs $1500 to 1800. I have always been a huge Sprintray fan and…
Printed a Hybrid, Felt Cute, Might Delete…IDK…..3D printed hybrid on Carbon 3D, with a 3Shape scan by Jacob Farber Design
We have so many really big cases at Brighterway, if you are not familiar, its a dental clinic that caters to those in the homeless shelter, the working poor and low income veterans. Dr Joe Mehrenfar, residents and some full time docs take care of this awesome population. Brigherterway hosts implant…