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The Dentist’s Role in Managing Oral Complications of Cancer Therapies

More than a million new cases of cancer are diagnosed in the United States...

Treatment Planning for Dental Implants: A Rationale for Decision Making, Part 2: Partial Edentulism

A previous review1 considered the factors involved in the decision of whether to extract...

Banking Teeth for Stem Cells

Deciduous and wisdom teeth, along with jawbone and periodontal ligament, are noncontroversial sources of...

Assessing Patient Readiness for Full-Mouth Restoration: A Case Report

Full-mouth restoration is a process requiring attention to detail from preoperative impressions to cementation...

Simplified Solutions to Daily Anterior Aesthetic Challenges Using a Nano-Optimized Direct Restorative Material

Aesthetics is one of the key driving forces in dentistry today, and a renaissance...

Makeovers Are Ageless

In a time when we are seeing the media full of makeovers from Botox...

The Hygiene Department How to Turn a Loser Into a Winner

The majority of practices I have consulted with over the last 20 years typically...

Form and Function in Cosmetic Dentistry

Sometimes great opportunities present themselves in our dental office, and unless we are careful...

Review of Hemostatic Agents Used In Dentistry

Dentists perform a variety of surgical procedures frequently requiring the need for a hemostatic...

The Paperless Office

Practicing dentists keep reading and hearing about the “paperless office” or the “totally digital...