Category Archives: Restorative Dentistry

If at First You Don’t Succeed…

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Implant placement is the gold standard in permanent restorative treatment. Its popularity is largely due to high success rates documented in countless studies over the decades, including in Quintessence’s own journals. Still, implants are not exempt from complications or failures. … Continue reading

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Cooking with Composites

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It’s an open secret that the restorative cases featured in most conferences and lecture halls are often aspirational; they are meant to impress, but not enough information is shared to make the results achievable by most clinicians. Ronaldo Hirata has … Continue reading

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Why Drawing Matters

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Dentistry is part science, part craftsmanship, and part artistry. And only when clinicians have skills in all three areas will they produce excellent results and outcomes for their patients. The science and craftsmanship of dentistry are covered extensively in dental … Continue reading

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Conservative Dentistry with Esthetic Post Systems

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For nearly 300 years, clinicians have written about the place­ment of posts in the roots of teeth to retain restorations. As early as 1728, Pierre Fauchard described the use of “tenons,” or metal posts screwed into the roots of teeth … Continue reading

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Why You Need to Up Your Game When It Comes to Treatment Planning

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Written by: Natalie Schawel The term treatment planning means to plan a sequence of procedures to provide a solution (or treatment) for a previously identified problem (or diagnosis). Simple enough, right? Not really. “Unfortunately, treatment planning is always implied but … Continue reading

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