Posted May 8, 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 May 8, 2019
By Todd Ehrlich
We did a double take as we walked past the Merz booth at the IDS meeting in Germany. Merz has developed a milled denture system where the teeth are already set in the puck! Just scan the arches and mill what is necessary. The Baltic Denture System can be found HERE. August discusses:
Posted May 7, 2019
By Cindy Barbee
We call this the “rule of the sprue.” We always place the sprue on the largest and most bulky portion of the ceramic for milling. We even do this if the sprue goes on a contact. Why? Well, we’ve all seen something chip during milling. It comes with the territory for milling ceramic. We see…
Posted April 25, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Rather than flood Digital Enamel with some pretty bread and butter crown cases, I thought I would post all in one long post. At Brighterwey, a dental clinic that serves the homeless, low income Vets and the working poor, 3shape donated 5 Trios machines. Amman Girbach donated a Ceramill completely lab system, but we haven’t…
Posted April 24, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
I have been volunteering about once a week at the Brighterway Institute in Phoenix where we treat the homeless, low income Vets and the working poor. You know me so, I gotta put a digital spin on any dentistry I do. This patient needed #19 and 20 out due to a lot of infection…
Posted April 18, 2019
By Todd Ehrlich
One of the big advancements in CAD/CAM dentistry materials was the launch of the Multiblock from Ivoclar Vivadent in 2007. It was from their very popular line of Empress CAD blocks and pressed material. They were able to make a block with a varying degree of translucency. The shade stayed the same, but translucency increased. …
Posted April 18, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
If you have been seeing anything that I have posted over the last few weeks you may have picked up that I have been doing some volunteer days at a clinic located in a homeless shelter in Phoenix called Brighterway. Brighterway delivers dentistry to the homeless, low income Vets and the working poor. I have…
Posted April 15, 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 April 9, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
I know a lot of people that really like ‘Screw-mentable” restorations. I just feel like a moron saying “Screw-mentable.” But in a nutshell, in implants we have cemented restorations, with the drawback of having to clean up cement sub gingival. On the flip side with have screw retained crowns, no cement, but if we have…
Posted April 8, 2019
By Todd Ehrlich
The Katana block from Kuraray has become very popular in the cad/cam world. Now, they are making full contour zirconia even faster with their 18 minute sintering cycle through DentsplySirona’s SpeedFire furnace. The fastest translucent zirconia in the market. August discusses with Manabu Suzuki from Kuraray.