Technology

Ensuring Restorative Success With Bruxism Testing

Figure 1. The home test monitor provides objective data on bruxism and obstructive sleep...

So What’s Eating You? Resorption Case Using an Aesthetic Abutment

INTRODUCTION One of the great challenges that we face in dentistry is matching a...

Laser Removal of All-Ceramic Restorations: Solving a Difficult Clinical Challenge

INTRODUCTION I am a laser dentist who purchased my first pulsed dental laser in...

Overcoming a Clinical Challenge: Detecting Caries Around Amalgam Restorations

Detecting caries around amalgam restorations is challenging. Typically, older amalgam restorations may cause some...

Dental Digital Photography Update: A Report From the 2014 Chicago Midwinter Meeting

A Report From the 2014 Chicago Midwinter Meeting Hello all. After attending this year’s...

Improving the Local Anesthesia Experience for Our Patients

Figure 1. Gate principal of nerve sensation and pain. Among healthcare professionals, dentists are...

Using Digital Impressions and CAD/CAM in Implant Dentistry

INTRODUCTION Dentistry is undergoing a technology revolution, and traditional methods are being displaced at...

Cosmetic Gingivectomy Using Radiosurgery

INTRODUCTION Radiosurgery is used for cutting and coagulation of soft tissue in the oral...

Role for CAD/CAM in Forensics?

INTRODUCTION As the progression of technology accelerates, the profession of dentistry faces a dilemma:...

Magnification Alternatives: Seeing is Believing, Part 2

INTRODUCTION Part one of this 2-part series focused on the resolving power of the...