Clinical tip: you need an air-polishing device (air slurry polisher) for more than you think!
My preference is to use it to uncover canals once the access perimeter has been defined, but I’ll give el Gordo his due on this … more
Restorative
I’d donate a kidney for a clinical example
This is such a routine procedure and yet it is fraught with risk……there is something close to 20K dentists in Canada, 19K alone in the … more
How to place better composites…
From the AACD blog….. AACD member, Dr. Amanda Seay, presents a how-to piece in the current issue of Dental Products Report, “How to better place posterior … more
When John Flucke comments, everyone……………
Kerr SonicFill Evaluation is Complete – a game changer if’n there e’er was one….. For about the past 5 months, I’ve been using/evaluating the Kerr … more
Mercury free – #1 with a bullet
Not sure how to categorize this; let’s just call it your mourning smile…….ah amalgam we hardly knew yee………………..
Proof – this is pudding – you’re validated
Just received this in the email moments ago……..have been looking for comments to be posted to this blog as the intention is to take the … more
Dental imaging co Cadent bought for $190m
Cadent has raised $75 million since its was founded in 1995. 30 March 11 10:58, Adi Ben-Israel Dental imaging device developer Cadent Holdings Inc. has been acquired by … more
3M ESPE and Straumann collaborate to develop a streamlined digital workflow for restorative dentistry
By Marty Jablow – Dental News and Technology Blog • Companies plan to connect 3MTM ESPETM LavaTM Chairside Oral Scanner C.O.S. to the Straumann® CARES® … more
Restorative Dentistry Symposium at the USC school of Dentistry
On Oct.9th/10, I stopped by the Restorative Dentistry Symposium at the USC Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry in Los Angeles. One of the speakers was … more