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 12, 2017
By Todd Ehrlich
I’ve been asked about this countless times: what firing peg material do you use? The two most popular peg material for chairside use are Object Fix from Ivoclar Vivadent and Quick Peg from Vita. Yes, there are many others, but these are the most popular for doctors in their office. As you will see in…
Posted December 7, 2017
By Todd Ehrlich
What a great concept for cosmetic makeovers! Have Eddie Corrales come to you! Dentists can schedule one of the premiere CAD/CAM dental ceramists in the world to make their crowns and veneers for a patient while they wait. Utilizing the Digital Smile Design (DSD) concept, he can preplan your case and arrive ready to go!…
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 22, 2017
By Todd Ehrlich
We were so happy to finish up this case for this young man. It was many many years in the making for him. He had both teeth knocked out as a child. Both teeth developed ankylosis, and #8 eventually succumbed to external resorption. Both were extracted. After many years of waiting for growth to complete,…
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 14, 2017
By Todd Ehrlich
We don’t do many temporaries with our digital restorative workflows, but when we do, we rely on Ivoclar-Vivadent’s Telio CS Link. It is a great provisional cement because it holds very well, has easy clean up, but most importantly it looks great! Tempbond is so yellow and opaque! Just what you don’t want under full…
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…
Posted November 7, 2017
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Making aligners in office is a huge plus for both you and your patient’s. For about $250 you can do an entire aligner case vs $1800 with Invisalign. But one annoying thing is that we still have to use a pressure former and trim the aligners. 3D printer and resin companies are working hard to…
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