Cosmetic dentistry’s rise to public awareness carries a delicate question about ‘selling.’ As we established ealier, the private dentist must operate as a business, and will often use aesthetic dissatisfaction as the genesis of a treatment plan. We also established …Continue Reading →
Combine more cosmetic dentistry awareness with increased media attention, and we find clinicians treating and managing many requests for personal image enhancement. Previously, patients wouldn’t ask for the treatments, or maybe even the requests were ignored. To some patients today …Continue Reading →
In 2011, an age of extraordinary advances in dentistry, we can look with pride at the advances made in the products and services we are now able to offer patients, and see how far we’ve progressed. A dentist is no …Continue Reading →
The Lava™ Crown and Bridge System: A precise match of aesthetics and strength Understanding what makes modern dental lab works so impressive helps the relationship between a lab and a dental practice. Part of the reason modern aesthetics works are …Continue Reading →
We all know what a veneer is, and many reading this will be well versed in how to apply them to a patient. However, do we all know where the veneer came from, from its humble roots to its explosion …Continue Reading →
Imposing Aesthetic Preferences While it is their proper role to advise and guide a patient toward a treatment plan, aesthetics clinicians should not impose their own preferences rather than comply with the patient’s wishes. It can be argued that the …Continue Reading →
With regard to the treatment plan and the materials used, what is considered best for the patient may also be something requiring ethical scrutiny. It may also be suggested that over – or under – treatment raises ethical issues of …Continue Reading →
As you know, dental schools at best might devote only a few hours to colour science; at worst, they completely ignore it. As early as 1931, E. B. Clark wrote of this in his article The Colour Problem in Dentistry. …Continue Reading →
A patient presents with a tooth damaged by disease or injury, and it now becomes your decision whether to perform a restoration or an extraction; it’s a common situation up and down the world of dentistry. Making this decision is …Continue Reading →
The hazards to general health posed by smoking are well-documented in numerous studies, yet they are being debated and even ignored by a great many people who continue to smoke. While it is true that other studies indicate that the …Continue Reading →