Management
Price Point Testing: How Do We Really Know What to Charge?
What is great clinical dentistry really worth? What’s it worth to you? Equally important,...
Oral Medicine
Differential Diagnosis of Severe Recurrent Oral Ulceration
Recurrent aphthous ulceration (RAU) also known as aphthous ulceration, recurrent aphthous stomatitis, or in...
Implants
A System for Definitive Restoration of Single-Stage Implants in One Day
The classic approach to placing osseointegrated implants in the edentulous mandible requires a period...
Management
Buying a Practice: The Bottom Line Method of Practice Valuation
I have been in practice for 36 years, for 32 of those years as...
Pain Management
Rapid Anesthesia: Three Sure-fire Paths to Rapid, Profound, Predictable Anesthesia
Mastering the ability to achieve rapid, profound, predictable anesthesia can have a major impact...
Restorative
Essentials of Dentin Bonding: Clinical Technique for Long-term Success
Between 1988 and 1997, amalgam placement in the United States decreased by 32%, from...
Restorative
A Predictable Technique Utilizing a Contemporary “Packable” Direct Posterior Composite Material: A Recipe for Success
Direct posterior composites offer dentists the most simple and cost-effective manner in which to...
Management
Modeling the Professionally Successful Practice
Dr. Cliff Ruddle, a noted endodontist from Santa Barbara, California, has often said publicly,...
Oral Medicine
Panoramic Radiographic Findings: Case Reports of Ectopic Teeth and Antroliths Within or Adjacent to the Maxillary Sinus
Figure 1. Panoramic radiograph demonstrating two antroliths in the maxillary sinus. Figure 2. Panoramic...
Periodontics
Prevention: The Key to Successful Nonsurgical Periodontal Treatment
Periodontal disease is a pathologic process that affects the supporting soft tissue and bone...