Posted February 20, 2018
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Free Crown Friday is something that Alien Milling Center will be doing every Friday in 2018!! Last Friday I posted that they would be doing a free crown with their Alien Zirconia and sinter it for you. You need to have either a lab scanner or a chaired cad cam system and a way…
Posted February 19, 2018
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Alan Mead from Dental Hacks Nation fame as a running joke about Digital Enamel changing its name to Analog Dentin, so I have two cases this week where we made 3D Printed Analog Models to celebrate the cheese! Implant Direct now has both a line of Scan Bodies and matching analogs that correspond to the…
Posted February 15, 2018
By August de Oliveira, DDS
This case is certainly not the prettiest, but I wanted to play with NT Trading’s Scan Post, Reusable Lab Analog and it ti base on another Alien Milling el cheapo case. Spoiler Alert: Meh. Could I have done this chair side? Absolutely. But just wanted to see the difference is esthetics between CEREC Zirocnia and…
Posted February 7, 2018
By August de Oliveira, DDS
A lot of us are anxiously waiting to get our hands on the Katana blocks coming out in March which are multi colored Zirconia which supposedly has translucency similar to Emax. Todd and I were at the IDS in 2017 where they announced it. 30 minutes in the speed fire. About 750 Mpa compared to…
Posted February 1, 2018
By Todd Ehrlich
Empress has been around for decades now. Ivoclar-Vivadent revolutionized cosmetic dentistry with Empress, along with better bonding systems being used, in the 1990’s. It continues to shine, and be a fantastic option for cosmetic situations. In the CEREC system, the Empress Multiblock is still a go-to block. We use it when a gradual transition of…
Posted January 29, 2018
By August de Oliveira, DDS
If you have read some of my implant posts you may know that I am a big fan of immediate molars. Its easy to “sell” to patients as they are coming in with a non restorable tooth, and usually don’t want to wait an extra 3 months on top of the extraction and graft, for…
Posted January 29, 2018
By Bill Claytor, DDS
“Perfectionism: Friend or Foe?” (This is Part Two of a Three Part Series on Perfectionism in Dentistry) STEP 1: Recognizing Perfectionism Perfectionism affects how one feels, thinks and behaves. In dentistry, how we view the spectrum from “clinically acceptable” to “perfection” is where most of us live clinically on a daily basis. So how…
Posted January 24, 2018
By Todd Ehrlich
As great as dental x-rays are today with our high resolution digital sensors or the convenient phosphor plates, they come with MAJOR limitations. Dental x-rays (the typical bite-wings and periapicals) are pretty much the same as they’ve been for 50+ years. The improvements have obviously come in the realms of: greatly reduced x-ray exposure digital…
Posted January 17, 2018
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Pretty old hat by now, but hey what the heck. Another guided CEREC Guide 2 case. As you may or may not know, Inlab can export CEREC Guide 2 to STL, but we don’t have that capability chaired. So you can send to an Inlab provider for about $20 and print it yourself for $5…
Posted January 16, 2018
By August de Oliveira, DDS
This was a fun case where I got to play with all my toys!! As many know CEREC can only export models as STLs but if you go with an Inlab provider you can get it converted. #5 extracted and grafted with MFDBA a while back. Planned in CEREC and Galileos and sent to an…
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