Posted August 8, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Printing Aligners in your office is a win win for everyone. Patients get their aligners quicker and you can replace them easily if they lose them. Its great for the office as most cases cost about $300 for around 20 aligners vs $1500 to 1800. I have always been a huge Sprintray fan and…
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 28, 2019
By Bill Claytor, DDS
“From Hiccups to Potholes” We all love to pursue happiness in our lives. We love to do things that bring us joy and pleasure. We as Americans often refer to this fundamental right mentioned in the Declaration of Independence as an expression of freely pursuing joy and happiness in things, as long as we don’t…
Posted July 25, 2019
By Todd Ehrlich
It can be scary doing your first few anterior restorations with CEREC. There are so many roadblocks that we’ve put on ourselves about anterior restorations! Dentists are the experts of dental anatomy! You can do it! Just set it up properly and go in with the right attitude! CEREC veneers and…
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…
Posted July 15, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Burbank dental labs has kindly offered to design and complete all of the cases for us at Brighterway! That being said, we usually have about 3 emails a day going back and forth and some things get lost in the confusion. This is a nice Vet who had an existing upper and lower “stud type”…
Posted July 9, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
The more Guided cases I do the more I realize that you really need to spend some time and take a few steps back before you print your guide. Here is a case where we really babied 7 and 8 with retreats and apicos over about 20 years and finally we just had to extract…
Posted June 24, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
So one of the things that Dr Joe and I wanted to do at Brighterway, besides perfecting an all digital full arch workflow, is try different techniques that researchers or lecturers are talking about and trying to prove if they work or not. I was at the Tru Abutment Symposium and one of the lecturers…
Posted June 20, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Pretty excited about the not only the new Sprintray Pro bu also the URIS like of Implants br TruAbutment! Got a chance to try them both out on a case this morning. #19 grafted with MFDBA about 6 months ago. Scanned with the OmniCAM and used Dentiq Guide. Dentiq has the URIS implant as well…