Implants

Here is a case where I didn’t initially plan on using 3D printing, but am glad I did.  #14 large lateral lesion on an old RCT. Gave patient the option of retreat or ext.  She went for ext.  Was going to extract, graft and wait, but once I got the tooth out I had a…

  Having a lot of fun with Mesh Mixer!  Noticed that there are a number of paid or free download sites for dental models. I’ve used Turbosquid.com for the last 5 years to get images for my books and presentations using 3D Studio Max.  There are also sites like GrabCAD.com and thingiverse.  You can get…

Ok, I’m back to the office and ready to play around with my Form 2!  The last case I played around with a Cerec Guide 2 converted to STL in InLab, today I am playing with two free softwares that can generate STL models from the DICOM files in Galileos.  Blue Sky Plan has a…

 Let me start this post by saying I have no idea what I am talking about!  Just got the printer yesterday and have been going through the learning process but just like my post on Dentaltown, Implants for Dummies, sometimes its fun to share the journey with others and learn as we go! I love…

For Dhavel Patel.  Certainly not as exquisite as the others, but do I get points for it being an implant :}?  

I found this pic where a doc was using an Nd/Yag laser and it heated up the implant so much it melted!!  It melted so bad the abutment wouldn’t fit!  So the moral of the story is to use a cool running laser like a CO2.  I used a DEKA to uncover a free hand…

Aka the lazy dentist’s bio copy, this is a way of taking the image of the patient’s flipper and getting it into Galileos.  This patient came to me wearing a flipper and 8-10 previously grafted. Rather than imaging the mouth without the flipper, I imaged with.  Instead of selecting 7-10 I just picked one tooth…

  Wow talk about a kitchen sink case!  Here we have an immediate implant and a common problem with immediates.  This patient came in between patients on a Thursday with his crown and post in hand.  I forgot to take a pre op photo before I cemented it back. We should have taken an alginate…

I don’t know about you, but PRF always looks like a booger or a loogie. But no one can deny the incredible results you get from using it.  Immediate on #13.  Look at how long the Guide goes under the gingiva!   In the CEREC Softare make sure in the platform stage to LEAVE and…