Posted December 12, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Got to work with a great surgeon, Dr Vivian Roknian on this Primescan hybrid case!! The more of these I do, the more I learn from past mistakes, so from the get go we took lots of pre op pics and two iPhone Face Scans on the Bellus 3D app. As you can…
Posted December 9, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
At Brighterway we treat the homeless and low income vets with full mouth implants. Sometimes they are temporized with a converted denture, which is fixed. But depending on the stability of the implants, we sometimes give the patient located over dentures, which have a full palate and the lowers are extended to…
Posted December 4, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Here is another fun case with the Trios/VHF Z4 Chairside set up I am testing for Patterson. While I never personally had an issue with ti bases debonding, many are a little wary as ti bases are short and really don’t have much in the way of ferrule. A number of digital docs are…
Posted December 3, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
So I think you all know that I am a big CEREC fan, but I was given the opportunity from Patterson to test out the new complete VHF Z4/Trios Chairside system, and well, color me impressed! Those of us who like to embrace tech outside our comfort zone have heard the judgmental tone of opinionated…
Posted December 2, 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 November 26, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Digital Hybrids are hard! Experience comes from making mistakes, and lets say I got a lot of experience here. The promise of digital imaging for implants is that we can bypass messy impressions and even messier luted jigs and pick up impressions for a corrected cast. In this case I wanted to see if we could…
Posted November 24, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
In this video I will go through all the steps to get beautiful custom abutments and screw retained crowns with CEREC Primescan 5.1. If you want to learn more in a hands on live patient environment, come to my Digital Implantology with CEREC course in Phoenix Fev 20-22, 2020 at Implant Pathways! Click on the…
Posted November 19, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
In this video I cover everything involved in printing an implant analog model from an intra oral scan including the gingival mask. We are doing a CEREC Live Patient Implant Course in Phoenix where we will cover CEREC Guide 2, Scanning with Scan Posts for Abutments and Crowns, as well as demoing full…
Posted September 30, 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 September 26, 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…