Posted August 21, 2019
By Todd Ehrlich
Zirconia is revolutionizing the dental materials world. We all know this, and enjoy it’s predictability, accurate machining, and strength. However, the biggest hurdle has been the esthetic value of zirconia. Sure, there are brands and techniques that can give one a translucent nature to zirconia (5Y-TZP) but it takes a LONG time for sintering, and…
Posted August 9, 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 August 8, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
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…
Posted August 6, 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 July 25, 2019
By Todd Ehrlich
It can be scary doing your first few anterior restorations with CEREC. There are so many roadblocks that we’ve put on ourselves about anterior restorations! Dentists are the experts of dental anatomy! You can do it! Just set it up properly and go in with the right attitude! CEREC veneers and…
Posted July 17, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
For those that have been trying to get CEREC Guide 2 keys for Zimmer, Bio Horizons or Implant Direct, just got an shipment!! Here is a straightforward case on #15. Send my CMG DXD to THE Frankie Acosta to convert to STL. If you want to have yours converted or just want to use CEREC…
Posted June 24, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
So one of the things that Dr Joe and I wanted to do at Brighterway, besides perfecting an all digital full arch workflow, is try different techniques that researchers or lecturers are talking about and trying to prove if they work or not. I was at the Tru Abutment Symposium and one of the lecturers…
Posted June 20, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Pretty excited about the not only the new Sprintray Pro bu also the URIS like of Implants br TruAbutment! Got a chance to try them both out on a case this morning. #19 grafted with MFDBA about 6 months ago. Scanned with the OmniCAM and used Dentiq Guide. Dentiq has the URIS implant as well…
Posted June 18, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
One of the things that is fun at Brighterway is that sometimes things don’t go to plan and that’s OK! We are constantly refining our protocols for all digital hybrids, over dentures and even full dentures. But, and I won’t even say sometimes, older is better!! I had the pleasure of meeting, truly, the…
Posted June 17, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
One of the great things about volunteering at the Brighterway clinic is that we get to try out theories. You may have seen some of my posts where I ask why people say you can’t do a certain procedure or you can’t scan a patent a certain way. The world of digital implantology is filled…