Posted January 7, 2020
By August de Oliveira, DDS
So, with a bit of sadness, this is my last case at the Brighterway Clinic. If you have been following my posts, I have been volunteering at Brighterway which is a dental clinic associated with a homeless shelter in Phoenix, AZ. The clinic also helps low income vets, battered women, and the working poor. …
Posted January 2, 2020
By August de Oliveira, DDS
If you know me, one of my biggest idols in Dentistry is Dr Jerry Niznick, the Godfather of modern implant dentistry. If you are not familiar with Dr Niznick he brought us the internal connection implant, founded Implant Direct, and more or less single handedly brought implantology to GPs. So I was honored and…
Posted December 30, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
When I first started doing hybrids, many were getting different types of metal bars and added teeth and acrylic gums by waxing them up on a model and then processing them, just like a denture. This type of y rid is called a “wraparound” as the acrylic completed covered the bar. When Zirconia hybrids…
Posted December 20, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
I’ve heard the term “prototyping” thrown around the 3D Printed Hybrid world a lot and, at fist, I thought it was just a fancy term for a temp used by those who wanted to sound important. But as I got more experience in Digital Hybrids, I realized its an actual bonafide word! In…
Posted December 19, 2019
By Todd Ehrlich
This was a fun case that had a big surprise after completion! We systematically replaced a number of older restorations over the course of a year. We used the CEREC system with PrimeScan and Ivoclar Vivadent’s eMax CAD ceramics. About a year later the patient had an accident and broke one of the centrals.…
Posted December 18, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Here is yet another case the reminds me that I need to practice what I preach more. Patient came in with #5 fractured and wanted 3 implants, should have done guided but did it free hand instead. As a result of #4 was a little off axis, so the perfect case for custom abutments. I…
Posted December 16, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
You may or may not have read some of my previous posts, but I have been volunteering at a clinic that serves the homeless and low income families and Vets called Brighterway. Been doing it for about 6 months and the goal was to try to figure out what was the best way to go…
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 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…
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