From Consult to Surgical Guide In A Single Visit – The Best Guided Implant Workflow In The World!
The #1 question I get from fellow dentists who are exploring 3D CBCT for their practices is “Why did you choose the Sirona system?” My answer is always the same […]
Screw Retained – Anytime & All The Time!
I’m always talking about technology and how implant dentistry has gone digital. This time I am going to take us back in time to an original technique – the screw […]
Building Your Implant Practice – Lateral Grafting and Orthodontic TADs
Our practice has managed to grow from basically zero implants to more than many surgeons in our area. How have we done this? The answer is pretty simple – I […]
Excuse My Venting – Dealing With Restorative-Surgeon Implant Error
Please excuse my rant and don’t misunderstand my intention. Also, I am not saying that this is ALL relationships, but this is reflective of quite a few relationships between general […]
A Critical Factor in Surgical Guide Accuracy
Guided implant surgery is only as accurate as the surgical guide. Unfortunately, not all surgical guides are created equal. I wanted to share a quick example of the precision and […]
You Should Be Doing This on Every Implant Impression
Once again I want to focus on idealizing the implant restoration. This time I want to focus on the inter proximal contact. During the integration period patients are typically without […]
Implant Restoration Emergence Idealization
Those who have heard me speak know my disdain for traditional healing abutments. In fact, I have written on my blog several times about custom healing abutments. This time I […]
An Important Problem to Watch for with Implant Restorations
The screw retained restoration is nothing new. However, the modern screw retained restoration has leveraged the economics and efficiency of CAD/CAM technology. This has led to a proliferation of ‘low […]
Take Your Implant Restorations To A Higher Level
Those who have followed me know that one of my passions is to take a clinical procedure and find a way to make it more efficient and produce better outcomes. […]
Implant Dentistry in 2014 – See What You’re Missing
I distinctly remember my implant introduction in dental school. It was a cluster of screws and parts and god knows what. It was complicated. It was patients getting draped from […]