Posted June 5, 2019
By Todd Ehrlich
While software and hardware in our digital dental world gets most of the spotlight, there are also materials that are coming out, too! GC is really hitting our chairside cad/cam market well. Their Cerasmart block is a fantastic ceramic/resin block that you should take a look. They are launching their LiSi ceramic in block form,…
Posted May 23, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
I was super excited to get my Primescan, then equally disappointed when I realized they did not get FDA approval within the CEREC software to make screw retained crowns on the TSV (Tapered Screw Vent by Zimmer) Sirona ti bases which are compatible with a number of implants including the Implant Direct Legacy line which…
Posted May 20, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Here is another charity case at Brighterway that went really well! Patient had implants done by Dr Joe Mehranfar at Brighterway Live, where you can learn how to do All on 4s, Sinus lifts and basic implants live on patients. Used Liquid Dam to help stitch the arch and took a pre preparation scan on…
Posted May 13, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
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…
Posted May 7, 2019
By Cindy Barbee
We call this the “rule of the sprue.” We always place the sprue on the largest and most bulky portion of the ceramic for milling. We even do this if the sprue goes on a contact. Why? Well, we’ve all seen something chip during milling. It comes with the territory for milling ceramic. We see…
Posted April 25, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Rather than flood Digital Enamel with some pretty bread and butter crown cases, I thought I would post all in one long post. At Brighterwey, a dental clinic that serves the homeless, low income Vets and the working poor, 3shape donated 5 Trios machines. Amman Girbach donated a Ceramill completely lab system, but we haven’t…
Posted April 24, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
I have been volunteering about once a week at the Brighterway Institute in Phoenix where we treat the homeless, low income Vets and the working poor. You know me so, I gotta put a digital spin on any dentistry I do. This patient needed #19 and 20 out due to a lot of infection…
Posted April 23, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
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…
Posted April 18, 2019
By Todd Ehrlich
One of the big advancements in CAD/CAM dentistry materials was the launch of the Multiblock from Ivoclar Vivadent in 2007. It was from their very popular line of Empress CAD blocks and pressed material. They were able to make a block with a varying degree of translucency. The shade stayed the same, but translucency increased. …
Posted April 18, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
If you have been seeing anything that I have posted over the last few weeks you may have picked up that I have been doing some volunteer days at a clinic located in a homeless shelter in Phoenix called Brighterway. Brighterway delivers dentistry to the homeless, low income Vets and the working poor. I have…