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…
Posted April 15, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Here is a case that didn’t go as planned, but we are still going to end up with a good result. Patient presented with two implants in the #24,25 spot with some bone loss. These were placed out of the country and upon unscrewing, seemed to be kinda Zimmer. Obviously too close together and not…
Posted April 9, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
I know a lot of people that really like ‘Screw-mentable” restorations. I just feel like a moron saying “Screw-mentable.” But in a nutshell, in implants we have cemented restorations, with the drawback of having to clean up cement sub gingival. On the flip side with have screw retained crowns, no cement, but if we have…
Posted April 3, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
With places like Smile Direct Club and Candid, more and more of us are printing out own aligners. Lots of companies now that can design for you from $240 to about $450. Well how does $150 sound? Full Contour is a design group that caters to labs. They have been big on the crown and…
Posted March 28, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Wow, this case was cool!! Edentulous upper, partial on the lower. Planned in Dentiq Guide, with a printed guide. Left the teeth on the right to anchor and free handed these and his uppers. Use a bunch of Legacy 2s also on the upper and will screwed on MUAs after healing and the new Implant…
Posted March 26, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
When Ivoclar first came out with their Emax abutment block, I was determined to do all implant restorations in house. I didn’t care that it took 2.5 hours, I was determined. Over time I have taken a bit of a staged approach and scanned and maybe milled and tried in on day one and then…
Posted March 6, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
I’ve been really bad about posting clinical cases lately. I have always been a “show what my day to day was”, kinda Facebook poster. Just lately, nothing super cool has rolled around my ops. Then all of a sudden, I have a flood of things, that at least I, think are cool. Enter TruAbutment. Tru…
Posted October 29, 2018
By August de Oliveira, DDS
I really am loving the low cost printers from a company with a funny name, Phrozen. This is the 3rd printer I have bought from them and, although I am sticking to my guns on getting a Moonray or Form 2 for a production, dental office printer, I may change my tune with this one,…
Posted October 24, 2018
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Ok I got some more resin from Apply Lab Works for the Form 2. This retails for $70 vs $150 from Formlabs. When you are printing a 40 model aligner case, that adds up quick! The Moonray resin is working perfectly, so I am super excited about that. I tested the tan and the gray.…
Posted October 18, 2018
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Doing aligners in house has been great for my practice and my patients. I’ve lowered my aligner fees by $1800 which was what I was paying Invisalign. But there are a lot of models to print and model resin is between $150 and $200 a liter or about $3-5 a model. I’ve experimented with less…