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Risk Assessment in Periodontal Diagnosis and Treatment Planning: The Fundamental Importance of Probing

Management of adult periodontitis has undergone considerable change in the past decade. As understanding...

Another Look at Root Canal Obturation

Many ingenious techniques have been devised for what should be a simple process of...

ReD Hot Hygiene, Part 4: H Is for Helpful

Help, or helpful, is defined in Webster’s Dictionary as: to contribute, to give assistance...

Lifestyle Modifications and the Management of Hypertension

There is evidence suggesting that hypertension affects nearly 50 million Americans.1 A study reported...

Correction of an Aesthetic Problem Related to Excessive Display of Gingiva

Chiche and Pinault1 describe in their text, Esthetics of Anterior Fixed Prosthodontics, the artistic...

Doctor—Your Hygienist Needs a Digital X-ray System!

So, what do you do with that?” asked the new patient, whom I was...

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...

Managing Money Flow to Safeguard Your Practice

I first met Dr. Don Lewis, an oral surgeon from Cleveland, Ohio, when he...

Buying a Practice: The Bottom Line Method of Practice Valuation

I have been in practice for 36 years, for 32 of those years as...

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...