You can learn a LOT from amalgams! Amalgam restorations rarely follow the "guidelines" for partial coverage indirect restorations! So, maybe we can be more creative when it comes to preparation design??!!! We discuss why we can be even more conservative with our preparation styles based on...
Variolink Esthetic from Ivoclar Vivadent is our resin-of-choice for cosmetic cases. Fantastic esthetics based on value, easy clean up, great try-in pastes, and light or dual cured.
Just a few simple things can make a ceramic margin blend so well, it's almost impossible to see. No need to hide your margins with CEREC, emax CAD HT, and Multilink (yellow!)
Cindy was not a fan of CEREC until she saw how it really worked!
Todd and Cindy discuss one negative dynamic of a dental office: a "staff" infection. There are no right or wrongs, and best practices to alleviate it, but they talk about how the dynamic does not happen at their dental office.
We had the great honor of having a legend in dentistry, Bill Butler, join us today. He discusses dental education and the importance of implants.
Cindy discusses her Q Optics TTL loupes. Pink of course!
The Isolite is one of the best inventions in dentistry! It helps control the working area, keeps things cleaner, and the patient can relax on it!
Todd and Cindy review the essentials for setting up your CEREC implant restoration. They show a great way to organize your components and walk through the software setup.
Todd and Cindy discuss how to "tell the story of the mouth." Digital dental photography is important to be able to do so!
Todd and Cindy review their favorite dental loupes by Q Optics!
We review our favorite technique for matching a single central: a polychromatic TriLuxe Block (Vita) and Variolink Esthetic System bonding (Ivoclar Vivadent.)
We use Diashine every day. We had a fun time making this video. Who knew that the goat hair brushes came from Cindy's own goats??!! :)
Todd and Cindy discuss the occlusion when the most posterior stop is removed. Trusting the BioCopy data will help with any discrepancies of digital articulation or movement through the maximum intercuspation position.
Sirona has broken the chairside zirconia barrier with the Speed Fire sintering oven! You can now design, mill, and sinter zirconia while the patient waits! Todd and Cindy review the entire system which includes: dry zirconia milling, a brand new sintering oven (Speed Fire,) and the new evacu...
CEREC ACES is the latest Digital Enamel class! It is only for dental assistants! No docs allowed! It is a sure way for an assistant to become bolder in their confidence of any CEREC restoration.
The ADEC Monitor Mount is a "must have" in the operatory! Our patients love them, and they make for a better patient experience. They can handle large monitors and may be placed in about any configuration necessary in the room. They are also very stable and do not drift.
Staining and characterizing molars that will never be seen is controversial. Some like to do it, others see it as a waste of time.
Todd and Cindy discuss how to optimize the interproximal contact between TWO CEREC proposals.
Dental hygienists and assistants can bump heads through the day, especially when they meet in sterilization. Kiersten and Cindy discuss how they make it work for them.
