Posted December 9, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
At Brighterway we treat the homeless and low income vets with full mouth implants. Sometimes they are temporized with a converted denture, which is fixed. But depending on the stability of the implants, we sometimes give the patient located over dentures, which have a full palate and the lowers are extended to…
Posted December 4, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Here is another fun case with the Trios/VHF Z4 Chairside set up I am testing for Patterson. While I never personally had an issue with ti bases debonding, many are a little wary as ti bases are short and really don’t have much in the way of ferrule. A number of digital docs are…
Posted December 3, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
So I think you all know that I am a big CEREC fan, but I was given the opportunity from Patterson to test out the new complete VHF Z4/Trios Chairside system, and well, color me impressed! Those of us who like to embrace tech outside our comfort zone have heard the judgmental tone of opinionated…
Posted December 3, 2019
By Cindy Barbee
As many stain and glaze classes as we have had at Digital Enamel, Ya’ll, most people want to know about fissures and occlusal staining. I think the side that really matters is the buccal surface! It’s gonna really make that restoration look so much better if a little effort is placed into it. …
Posted December 2, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
One of the goals about me volunteering at Brighterway (a dental clinic that serves a homeless clinic as well as treats low income vets and families) is to work out a full digital workflow for hybrids. To date the literature is almost non existent on if we can get hybrids to fit off of a…
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 November 18, 2019
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Its been fun seeing just what you can scan with CEREC Primescan! If you have tried to scan a denture in Omnicam, you know the frustration! To date, the best way to do a digital denture is to do a border molded impression within the patient’s existing denture, using the teeth…
Posted November 7, 2019
By Brandon O’Donnell
We all know digital impression taking is here to stay. Scanning the single crown, implant or bridge is routine in many offices around the world. It’s awesome! Patients love it, doctors love it and even more importantly assistants love it! Naturally, the next evolution in scanning is the edentulous arch. Here is a case done…
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