I am getting some great feedback from our Summit clients and our BEST for Dentistry members (www.bestfordentistry) about one of our alliance partners, Bayshore Dental Studio. The quality is great and the pricing even better. Just the other day, I was speaking with Jaimee Borden, their operations manager, about the wide range of good and not so ...
Read MoreI was fortunate to have been a dental lab tech prior to and during dental school. In fact most of my dental school professors had me do their crown and bridge. Because I continued to be trained as a master ceramist and had a full service lab in my office for over 30 years, I had the opportunity to improve our shade taking systems to a pretty fine ...
Read MoreI’m back with another look at clinical sensitivity after routine procedures. It has become common for Dentists to place a liner prior to the buildup of a composite. The original idea was to place something that would line the deepest part of the tooth to decrease cusp deformation associated with resin polymerization shrinkage during the ...
Read MoreI want to take a moment and address a common problem that I have seen in just about every practice I have visited. Sensitivity and complaints following a dental restorative procedure is so common as to be consistently predictable. I would have to say that I can’t remember the last time a patient of mine said that a filling, root canal, or crown ...
Read MoreIt doesn’t happen overnight. Most times we never realize we’ve done it. Some of us have tried to improve, but all of us surely realize that at some juncture we reach the point of maximum capacity due to clinical speed. When I was practicing every day, we would routinely have various offices visit us. I remember being stopped by one ...
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