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not a crown, you just took a picture of a healthy tooth! Just kidding. Looks awesome. PFM Practical (present participle additive that starts with an F) Money That crown has decay on the occlusal!!! Just kidding. Looks fantastic. Ok.......... which one would you like in your mouth? Door #2
April 22, 2021
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is the main bur followed by a F or VF to make the margin smooth. That is for crowns with margins at or slightly below the gum line. These crowns are always cemented and the margin feels like the cemento/enamel junction. Supra gingival zirconia restorations get a light to medium sized chamfer
May 29, 2024
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Blocking out grey of underlying metal when veneering bars with resin is a challenge. This video is the technique for using Gradia Gum Opaque along with metal bonding and composite primers to assure a tenacious bonding surface between both opaque and bar, as well as resin to opaque.
October 08, 2014
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We are looking for some feedback from labs as to what they are using for their pink porcelain on high translucency zirconia bridges. Gradia gum is something that is not an option for us, so other suggestions based on excellent results is most appreciated. We want realistic looking results
September 26, 2017
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Hello new dentist here. Today I had a NP 30 year old male who has overall good oral health. He is a MMA fighter and his current mouth guard is making his gums bleed. He was asking me if I had any recommendations for a new mouth guard. I was wondering if anyone had any experience with MMA specific
April 05, 2023
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I think that this fixture Does not support this They do not engage one another, Astra tx. Not an implant I regularly use, but I just get no engagement even after gum contouring. i have had this problem with them twice last month i send same imp comping and imp to different lab and it fit
August 24, 2022
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any flex, then there is Impac heat cure acrylic, which again is semi-flexible. Horses for courses. Just don't buy anything just because it's cheap. A properly manufactured and dialed in nightguard is a wonderful thing. An el cheapo , barely adjusted nightguard is expensice chewing gum and will cause
June 24, 2021
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every morning to guide the mandible back into place. Without it, dentists warned, patients risk long-term occlusal shifts, posterior open bites, or TMJ problems. Some old-schoolers still tell patients to chew gum, but the aligner offers more predictable results. Crowns, Shade Matching, and Milling
August 20, 2025
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materials that they are putting in it to make it lifelike. Cerec is ok for crowns that are above the gum line. Most people in my area have issues below the gum line and need more support for tooth structure. This is baloney. You can do a nice job with in office cad sub-g. Been doing it for years. In fact
May 21, 2018
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true. You nailed it! Ive used Zirc with knife edge preps for over a decade with great results! I've only had one break upon insertion at the margin and it was totally my fault. The gums love this shit and I usually have a hard time getting them off without cement present. Eric at Providence
April 22, 2021
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a wealth of technician communities. You can focus on specialty areas like cad/cam or specific cad/cam software groups. There are denture groups, creation porcelain groups, pressed, feldspatic, gum, acrylic and glamshot technician groups of varying skilled dental technicians. There are also technician
June 07, 2016
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. Polished Zi gives best soft tissue response and bone stability2. Monolithic Zi runs the risk of fracture (thats why I want the bar with Zi in non-load bearing areas) Pav, Medical grade Non Precious as a frame substrate is phenomenal, super high polish and can be veneered with Gradia and Gradia Gum
April 13, 2020
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Trump has put tariffs on overseas material. If you want worry free lab service and make you look good towards your patients, get a boutique lab. . This is really not a loss but a learning curve in life and good luck and a healthy life. Sounds like Globo-gym from the movie Dodgeball.
May 07, 2018
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from the implants being too close together? Ding ding Brett! Even though the tissue is the issue, the bone sets tone. The interproximal bone unzipped as the periodontist placed the 4 implants within 1mm from #7-#10. 2 healthy implants would have been perfect.Lsk121 in illinois does good stuff. I
October 28, 2019
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the cervix where the margin was placed. Some are sealed better than others. I have no references. Only have what I see clinically, and what others see as well. I do not recall ever seeing a feather edge margined crown, snap a tooth at the gum line. I do see it regularly with defined margins, especially
August 02, 2022
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and dismissed the patient. Im sending the impression to another lab and will see. It is so frustrating, this was easy, it subgingival and healthy gingiva no bleeding issues. Here is a good view, I would bet your entire mesial wall is undercut, you see how you can see the entire distal wall but you cant
January 19, 2021
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to judge what someone considers esthetic? If that is what he wants, he makes and informed decision, and you can do it safely and in a healthy way for the patient, I don't see why you shouldn't assuming the patient will pay for it!Gold logos don't look good. Instead, do a PFM with a waxed in logo
November 05, 2018
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, there is a new guy on the block... it is called the miniComfort... Send in 6 cases today... Patients seem to love them and wear them in the day time also... sorta like chewing gum all day tOSU basketball team wears a sports type prototype... the miniComfort lab warrant them for 3 year or 3 free remakes
April 03, 2015
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for Sourena and let him know about your interest and contact information. I will contact him on your behalf, today.Finishing 2 arches right now, will post pictures...Nacera Pearl GC Lustre Paste and GC Gum ZR-FS Nice, Uwe, Pearl 1? I think Blue X is registered in Canada. Contact Sourena and I'll
February 01, 2018
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cases back, and if you needed a remake or a small tweak it was another month. Did my patients really care that it was the best porcelain work I've ever seen. No. Most of the comments were along the lines of why is it darker by the gums? or Eww it has a crack in it like the other front tooth
March 24, 2025
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where that margin is, well, guess what? It's all die stone to us! We can't see tooth from gum color wise, but when we get it poured up and looked at under a good stereo-zoom microscope............... holy cow!..... more like WTF???? Then we have to make that call quickly to you and politely tell you
June 22, 2016
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, and coupled with soft tissue management it results in extremely healthy gingiva. it is also the easiest to prepare and impress. That's where I'll disagree. I find a chamfer infinitely easier to prep. for the average operator (which you are definitely not), controlling the tip of the bur in all dimensions
December 03, 2018
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an active database of healthy mouth scans so when teeth break we have access to occlusion and previous anatomy for 3D printing? Ummno? Why do i can about previous anatomy? So if I scan a model, I could download it from their online database and upload into Blue Sky plan to stitch with cbcts to print my
January 28, 2023
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trim the model back slightly, barely, for the above For a more traumatic extraction you trim the model back more and the pontic rests in the ext site and the gums heal around / under it I don't deal with movie stars in my office. In 25 years I have had one patient that complained about the tissue pull
August 28, 2018
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and tissue health. It is much more conservative than any prep with a finish line, and when used the margin does not dictate where the crown begins, but the margin is instead positioned by the technician who is now free to place it in the most ideal gingival location resulting in healthy and stable tissue. This is not new. It is simply a revisitation of rotary curratage and flat emergence profiles done in gold, now using zirconia.
December 05, 2018
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, it took them about 5 mins), they reviewed the scan, agreed with me that it was too subgingival, I took a PVS impression (told the patient, look, this tooth just doesn't work good with the scanner because the decay was so far under the gums, we will use traditional impression materials) and sent
December 26, 2022
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manufacturing processes and materials........ I nominate Lane McGeek to start it! Here are my opinions to get the ball rolling: Soft only = expensive chewing gum hard / soft , aka laminated nightguard= a good step but the Lab can only do these with a construction bite and the occlusal attachment
May 04, 2017
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. Roughen up the acrylic remove all traces of the old tooth. Leave the facial acrylic because you won't match it with the new stuff but you will have to thin it out to place some of the tooth under the gum. fit a denture tooth. If you don't have the exact size, cut a larger size down. I
January 30, 2020
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have patient bite into it before curing and cure in mouth while biting. Polish finish and done. I do use bonding agent. Parkell makes some durahard liner that is composite gum colored liner that chemical cures in mouth also. Can also use composite to make denture tooth. That way don't need to have
May 05, 2018
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was friends with Drs Thomas and Stewart to name a few, who all strived for better dentistry. Today there is still the gingival curitage diamond that yields a chamfer margin along with healthy tissue that was brought to the market sometime in the early 70's by a renown dentist out of USC. What many don't know
August 04, 2016
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Not sure if this should be in the Implantology section or Lab section, but here goes...I just delivered an immediate Full Upper Denture retained by four locator abutments, for a healthy 58 yo male. The case was sequenced so that we initially fabricated an immediate flipper delivered the day
June 03, 2015
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is incorrectly trimmed. I have never ever gotten a note from another lab asking me to trim the opposing. Are you joking? Trim healthy teeth? Their finishing is terrible, sent me an anterior crown that was wider mesiodistally than its incisogingival length. Finish lines are open 75% of the time which makes
December 20, 2015
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require a root canal, gum surgery.....or maybe just a new crown will do it. But we will make it better. I wouldn't say anything about the previous dentist in this case. This level of sucky to mediocrity does not approach the shit-bag disgraceful work I showed earlier. Like I said, I'm not looking
December 22, 2015
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. So stir it up! It's healthy! And after 40 years of Glidewell. IT IS NOT ISOLATED and you can plan on it....... just the way it is..... If you have been to McDonalds enough, you know your burger and fries arent always the same. sometimes they are perfect, sometimes they are terrible. sometimes my
December 30, 2013
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