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 August 1, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
One of the goals about me volunteering at Brighterway (a dental clinic that serves a homeless clinic as well as treats low income vets and families) is to work out a full digital workflow for hybrids. To date the literature is almost non existent on if we can get hybrids to fit off of a…
Posted July 29, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Here is more on an everyday case, but you gotta be a bit of a dental Mac Gyver when dealing with implants. I placed an immediate implant on #9 with a Legacy 2 implant and tried to scan in CEREC Primescan. Unbeknownst to me, you cant scan Zimmer compatible implants yet with the Primescan. Tried…
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 July 15, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Burbank dental labs has kindly offered to design and complete all of the cases for us at Brighterway! That being said, we usually have about 3 emails a day going back and forth and some things get lost in the confusion. This is a nice Vet who had an existing upper and lower “stud type”…
Posted July 9, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
The more Guided cases I do the more I realize that you really need to spend some time and take a few steps back before you print your guide. Here is a case where we really babied 7 and 8 with retreats and apicos over about 20 years and finally we just had to extract…