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5 Probable Causes of Post-Operative Tooth Sensitivity

5 Probable Causes of Post-Operative Tooth Sensitivity

Are you one of those dentists that scoff off post-operative tooth sensitivity complain of your patients as a natural occurrence that will simply diminish in 3 days or so after we did tooth restoration? Or, do you care enough and prescribe pain meds? Or, do you really care that you assess and try to figure out from your end IF you indeed inadvertently caused the occurrence somehow…somewhere.

Well, if you are prudent and truly do care for your patients, then, this post is for you. DMD cEnter will provide you 5 probable and general causes why your patient feels post-operative tooth sensitivity after you did a successful restorative filling. Of course, these are the usual suspects to check to really address the issue.

Retentive Parts of Removable Partial Dentures

Retentive Parts of Removable Partial Dentures

Removable Partial Dentures seem to be a dental treatment of the past with the surgence of many options to replace missing teeth such as fixed bridge and implants. However, this is still a viable option especially if the patient has a limited budget and the concern is minimally invasive style of treatment. In order that RPD to really work and not cause damage at a later time to the abutment teeth and its surrounding tissues, we need to be aware of its parts, its features and benefits. One of those parts is the clasp that provide direct or indirect retention for the denture. So, let’s delve to review the aspects of the clasp, functionalities and various designs, so, if we do need to use RPD as an option for our dental treatment, we will not provide a disservice to our patients.

RPD Major Connectors Review

RPD Major Connectors Review

Do you design your own Removable Partial Dentures or do you allow your dental laboratory technician to do it for you? How do you define your design to make sure stability, proper distribution of force, longevity and comfort are provided properly for an effective appliance and replacement of missing teeth for your patient? Let’s refresh our memory and get into the different classifications of major connectors and more information about them, so, we can take control of our design on our RPD for our patients with much confidence.

Removable Partial Denture: Review On Its Classification

Removable Partial Denture: Review On Its Classification

Do you still do removable partial dentures in your dental practice? Or, do you totally just do fixed bridge? It is an undeniable truth that removable partial dentures (RPD) are the most affordable tooth replacement and much more minimally invasive than fixed bridge. However, in esthetics and patient’s comfort, removable partial dentures are quite limited and challenging, but, at the end of the day due to cost flexibility of RPD, it is still the best choice for multiple tooth replacement. Thus, DMD cEnter will provide a short review of its classifications to remind us what can be the best RPD base on classification will be good to our patients at their specific case.

Suturing for Oral Surgical Success

Suturing for Oral Surgical Success

Do you still remember all the suturing techniques? We know not all dentists practice oral surgery. However, there’s a reason why we all learned the basics in case of emergency and even just to do simple dental treatments that may require our best effort to do sutures that will encourage proper healing and successful treatment of our dental case. Let’s go back and review the different suturing techniques we may need to apply either on our daily practice as an oral surgeon, periodontist and implantologist or being just a general practitioner who do everyday our best to deliver quality and safe treatments to our patients.

Facing the New Normal in Dental Practice

Facing the New Normal in Dental Practice

The CoVid-19 virus pandemic caught all of us unaware. This has globally affected everyone without exception and as much as we would like to always find the rainbow at the gloomy sky, we will still need to deal with what is realistically happening on the ground. This does not mean we will be defeated or feel depress but this just means that we all should face the current needs head on and do what needs to be done to cope and succeed against the situation. This includes in handling what is our now normal in dental practice and to check the list if we are doing it that can make our practice continue and even thrive during this time.

Delving Into Chemical Method of Sterilization

Delving Into Chemical Method of Sterilization

In the new normal we are all living with, we need to be familiar with all the armamentarium available to protect ourselves from getting sick, particularly with CoVid-19 that created havoc in all aspects of our lives. Thus, one of the things we need to at least have a basic knowledge with are the chemical solutions available for disinfectant and/or sterilization. Let’s be smart buyers in doing our infection control and buy what is right for our dental practice.

Minimally Invasive Diastema Restoration with Prefabricated Sectional Veneers

Minimally Invasive Diastema Restoration with Prefabricated Sectional Veneers

Are you tired of figuring out the shade selection in multi-layering technique? Are you struggling on how you can finish your indirect restoration cases without the need of your patient to visit your clinic again at least 2x more and increase more chances of you, your patient and your staff for CoVid-19 exposure? Are you damaging more of your patient’s tooth structure just so it can accommodate your treatment plan? Are you just stuck to remain on what you know rather than what’s really best for your patient as you don’t know other treatment alternatives? If all your answer is “Yes”, then, read this case presentation by Dr. Claudio Novelli with a private practice at DENS Centro Medico Lombardo, Italy with several years of experience in doing Cosmetic Dentistry the alternative way who has generally shared with DMD cEnter his published article at MDPI Dentistry Journal.
Learn how he does it.

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