Can’t Get Your Implant Crown Seated? Part 3

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Can’t Get Your Implant Crown Seated? Part 2

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Can’t Get Your Implant Crown Seated? Part 1

My implant crown got loose soon after it got delivered

My implant crown got loose soon after it got delivered This is something I keep seeing at the dental school….the implant crowns that are delivered by the dental students few days or few months after get loose. This is not something I see in my own cases. It can be due to a lot of […]
What is Going Through My Mind As I Approach This Anterior Reconstruction?

What is Going Through My Mind As I Approach This Anterior Reconstruction? This case had a lot of pre-prosthetic planning, exploring various treatment options. We planned with a diagnostic wax up and a surgical stent was fabricated. Dr. Sari Hershenfield did the surgical phase and had these implants in really good positions. This patient also […]
The First Implant I placed was a Branemark MK3 Implant

The first implant I placed was a Branemark MK3 implant, which was an external hex implant. This was in 2002, almost two decades ago. At the time, I had to learn so many different screw drivers because the company had a driver for so many different prosthetic components. There was a driver specifically for the […]
Corporate Responsibility of the Milling Centers in the Overall Digital Workflow

Corporate Responsibility of the Milling Centers in the Overall Digital Workflow As a prosthodontist trained almost twenty years ago, I have witnessed the shift from cast restorations from the lost wax technique to milled restoration using digital dentistry. Honestly, everywhere I go, I am being bombarded by the message of how great digital dentistry is, […]
Catering to your patients’ needs

Behind every full mouth reconstruction that I planned and treated with a patient is a story that only the patient and I can understand. As a prosthodontist, I don’t always have the luxury of a built in trust or rapport with the patient that a general dentist may […]