While most patients really would choose to have their new restorations look “new,” sometimes our CEREC restorations lack depth. This is a tutorial on the basics of staining and glazing for depth. This will “jazz” up your restorations without making like they need to have restorations themselves. You need to use high…
Don’t F with my Lunch Break! RCT/Enamic Crown on #31
Everyone knows I am a big fan of Emax, but you can’t deny the strength and speed of Enamic. I am super excited about trying it on Implants as well. patient came in at 11, and we break for lunch at 12:30 (I take a 1.5 hour lunch still), so I was tempted to just…
Take Care of Your CEREC System!
This is a detailed review of how to take care of your CEREC System. Leave the door open at the end of the day! more….. Our online education platform is awesome! Hundreds of videos that help your day-to-day use of CEREC! Works directly through your Apple or Android devices!
Blah, Blah, Blah….Crowns, Blah, Blah: #12,13 CEREC Crowns.
I was finishing up a 3D summit in Dallas and a doc came up to me and said, “Hey are you a GP, all you post is Implant stuff?” Ummm, hells yeah I’m a GP. If I was slinging implants 8 hours a day I’d be driving Lambos and figuring out where to go next…
Digital Enamel Fall 2016 Schedule
Our classes at Digital Enamel are selling out for 2016. Our CEREC ACES class for dental assistants in October is already sold out! There is a waiting list, so let us know if you’re interested. CEREC Straight Forward is sold out for October and November. Next class is in January. Crash Course in CEREC…
Dent-Siro World?
The 2016 SiroWorld Event in Orlando was an amazing experience. You should come to next year’s event in Las Vegas, no matter what they call it! 🙂 Open Margins Videos Todd and Cindy have a series of videos discussing many aspects of digital dentistry. Check them out! Open Margins Videos
Break Up Veneers
Don’t tell me the power of one-visit dentistry isn’t real! This is one of our long-lost patients. She moved years ago across the country, but never forgot the one-visit restoration we did for her over 10 years ago. This case was completed in three visits: Earlier in the summer when she came on a whim…
Vita Enamic IS Hybrid Abutment
The newly FDA approved Vita Enamic IS abutment block is out. It is very easy to use and bond to a CEREC TiBase. The major advantage to this material regarding restoring implants is that it bends and flexes similarly to dentin. Obviously, this is great for teeth, but time will tell with dental implants. …
Learn From Amalgam
You can learn a lot about tooth structure from amalgam! Even tooth structure that is next to leaking amalgam can hold up for years! So, why are we trained to cut it back in today’s bonding and high-strength ceramic technologies?? Amalgams violate the rules for indirect restorations all the time, so it’s time to rethink…
Can’t Do Implant, But Can Do Cantilever!
A very sweet lady had a fractured root with her lateral maxillary lateral incisor. She was unable to do an implant and needed something fast. So, our second option was a simple cantilever off of the canine immediately after extraction. Her provisional cantilever was milled with Telio CAD and based off of her preoperative occlusion…