Butterflies in the Stomach

Butterflies in the Stomach I just saw this full mouth rehab that I did more than ten years ago for a follow up. I don’t know about you guys but I always get butterflies in the stomach when I see these patients on the schedule…. Once a year, I get to evaluate my own […]
Three Things To Evaluate when Your Patient Needs a New Crown and a Denture

Three Things To Evaluate when Your Patient Needs a New Crown and a Denture I get a lot of questions from my students about what they have to do for a patient who will need a crown and a new partial denture. The common answer is you need to fabricate the fixed treatment (the crown) […]
My Dos and Don’ts When Retrofitting a Crown to an Existing RPD

Prosthetic Consideration of a Patient After Surgical Resection from Squamous Cell Carcinoma

For this case, the patient had a surgical resection from the right inferior alveolus squamous cell carcinoma. The patient is not interested in implant therapy. The only thing I can do is to offer her a standard cast RPD. Even though this patient had cancer, my prosthetic treatment for her is not all that different […]
Providing Treatment of Surveyed Crowns and Removable Prosthesis

I think many people underestimate how much work goes into planning a fixed removable combination case. There are many factors to consider logistically as well as making sure the patient knows what to expect during the process. For patients needing this type of treatment, they are obviously missing enough teeth that need to have a […]