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The Solea Laser
Dental lasers have come a long way. Convergent Dental’s Solea Laser is the fastest selling laser in the USA. Because of it’s 9.3 micron frequency, it is perfectly balanced for hydroxyapatite. The light literally vaporizes enamel. Anesthesia is not even needed in many situations. Our online education platform is awesome! …
Make Michonne Proud: Another Katana Case
Ran out of A3 Katana blocks so here is a case I sent out using ExoCAD and Alien Milling. Open contact 14/15 decay around all teeth, did some heroics on #15. Sent to Alien at $39 a unit without stating, just milled and sintered. #13 is elongated bossily to jump a cross bite. Cemented…
Digitally Upgraded Veneers
Having completed many one-day cosmetic makeovers for my patients, and having it done to me as well, the one thing I hear more often than not is: “I don’t want to go through the temporary stage.” Like it or not, our patients do not want to have provisionals. Can provisionals be helpful? Of course, but…
Race to the Bottom? A $3.85 Zirconia crown from a CEREC scan
Free Crown Friday is something that Alien Milling Center will be doing every Friday in 2018!! Last Friday I posted that they would be doing a free crown with their Alien Zirconia and sinter it for you. You need to have either a lab scanner or a chaired cad cam system and a way…
Katana Crowns are Alien to Me: CEREC and $50 Katana Zirconia from Alien Milling
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…
Empress MultiYear
Empress has been around for decades now. Ivoclar-Vivadent revolutionized cosmetic dentistry with Empress, along with better bonding systems being used, in the 1990’s. It continues to shine, and be a fantastic option for cosmetic situations. In the CEREC system, the Empress Multiblock is still a go-to block. We use it when a gradual transition of…
“Perfectionism: Friend or Foe?” (Part 2)
“Perfectionism: Friend or Foe?” (This is Part Two of a Three Part Series on Perfectionism in Dentistry) STEP 1: Recognizing Perfectionism Perfectionism affects how one feels, thinks and behaves. In dentistry, how we view the spectrum from “clinically acceptable” to “perfection” is where most of us live clinically on a daily basis. So how…
50 Shades Of Dental Grey
As great as dental x-rays are today with our high resolution digital sensors or the convenient phosphor plates, they come with MAJOR limitations. Dental x-rays (the typical bite-wings and periapicals) are pretty much the same as they’ve been for 50+ years. The improvements have obviously come in the realms of: greatly reduced x-ray exposure digital…
Living the Dream
Daniel Vasquez visits Digital Enamel and discusses how his practice runs the digital dream. He has a great story of how it impacts his practice and how he became a dentist. He is living his dream Our online education platform is awesome! Hundreds of videos that help your day-to-day use of CEREC! Works…