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…
Posted September 4, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Been posting a bit on digital hybrids, so it was a nice change to get back to my roots and post about Guided Surgery!! Got a chance to try out Nobel’s new DTX Studio which will replace Nobel Clinician and the new version has the ability to export to STL for $50. Super impressive software…
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 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 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 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…
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