Vita has hit a home run with this material! Vita Suprinity: a high strength (541 MPa), zirconia-reinforced glass ceramic. What is the deal with this material? Is it a gimmick, here to stay, a real player in same day dentistry? We have been playing with this material off and on in our office for a…
PrimeScan Tips and Techniques
The CEREC PrimeScan has been out for about a year! Time flies! It is like a race car with unbelievable horsepower! However, the driver sometimes doesn’t know how to manage the horsepower! This video goes over some key points in the utilization of the CEREC PrimeScan and how to make better models. This…
Glutton for Punishment: Legacy 4 Immediate Molar on Dr Jerry Niznick’s Wife
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…
Whats Old is New Again: Metal Frame PMMA Overlay Hybrid on Metal Bar from a CEREC Primescan Image
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…
Rapid Prototyping: Using “Prototypes” for quick lost cost changes in a Digital Hybrid with the EnvisionOne
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…
Only Digital Dentistry!
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.…
VHF is No Beta: Milled titanium abutments and Emax on the VHF Z4 with Trios
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…
No More Rolling The Dice With Digital Hybrids: Face Scans, Photogrammetry and Trios scans on Hybrids
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…
Coloring Is Fun!! Multi Color 3D Printed Hybrids on the Envisiontec One from Primescan Images
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…
CEREC PrimeScan Cosmetic Makeover
In our advanced CEREC courses we discuss how “stress kills creativity.” It is difficult to have your full creative functions working when you have stress! Completing a cosmetic makeover in one visit is full of surprises and challenges that can cause a lot of stomach lining. So, the objective is to reduce those “pain…