My Mentor Dr. Hussein Zaki
This week, I learned about the passing of one of my great mentors from Pittsburgh. My mentor, Dr. Hussein Zaki, passed away this month. I have been feeling quite sad. And I couldn’t help but to reflect on our time together. He had played a such big part in my professional development during my time […]
Giving Hope To Society’s Rejects
When I first learn to make dentures, I felt so sad for those people who have to suffer from losing their full set of teeth. I thought to myself the least I can do is to learn how to make the most beautiful and the most comfortable set of dentures for them and perhaps I […]
Reflecting on My Dental Teaching Journey
Reflecting on my journey, it was almost five years ago that I was given the opportunity to teach at the dental school. At the time, I had been in private practice for almost fifteen years. At the time, I didn’t know if I could teach….But I always remembered how stupid I felt in dental school…how […]
The Things I would tell my Younger Self
A recent Facebook post reminded me that I moved back to Toronto seventeen years ago….which means I started my prosthodontic residency in Pittsburgh twenty years ago. I started going through some pictures of my graduation to remind me of what mindset I was like at that stage in my life. I found this one picture […]
The Unaesthetic Black Triangle
When I first started practising dentistry many years ago, I didn’t know how much people hated the black triangle. The black triangle that can develop as a result of gingival recession leading to the loss of the interdental papilla. So much research has been around to determine what contributes to supporting the interdental papilla. All […]
How to Plan and Execute a Partial Denture Reline and Repair
Many dental colleagues have reached out to me privately where their denture reline has gone wrong. I decide to document this simple case of denture reline and repair and share the thought process and techniques I used to manage this case successfully. I hope you find the information here useful. Please share if you like […]
A Very Difficult Cast RPD….
With today’s technology and materials, when I see a compromised dentition, It is always easy to think of many treatment possibilities. Whether it is full mouth clearance and to consider one of the implant supported solutions or to save all teeth and to plan and perform a full mouth reconstruction, there are many ways […]
How I go from here to there…
This is just a case I want to document to share with my colleagues of the clinical steps I actually took to complete this case. I ended up doing eight porcelain crowns on the six maxillary anterior teeth and two mandibular canines and four composite bondings of the lower anterior teeth. My thought process was […]
Delivery Sequence for Single Crown-Part 2
Delivery Sequence for Single Crown-Part 1
