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Managing Cash Flow to Improve Your Bottom Line

Cash flow—how much money is flowing into and out of a dental practice—is an...

Is There a Satisfactory Alternative to Opioids in the Management of Surgical Pain?

Figure 1. Rofecoxib: Specific inhibition of COX-2. The dental practitioner has many ways of...

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...

Stainless Steel Reinforced Resin Retained Bridges

Provisional restorations are an important and desirable restoration in today’s practice. The advent of...

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...

Differential Diagnosis of Severe Recurrent Oral Ulceration

Recurrent aphthous ulceration (RAU) also known as aphthous ulceration, recurrent aphthous stomatitis, or in...

The Class III Posterior Composite Restoration

The class III restoration is nominally a “one-surface” restoration on the proximal contacting surface...

Maximum Success in an Anterior Makeover Using the Minimum Number of Restored Teeth

The contemporary approach to most generalized aesthetic problems in the maxillary anterior teeth is...

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

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