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Theraputics

All on Four

May 17, 2013

Taking an “All on Four” clinical course taught by Chris Winterholler. Two quick observations: It works. Like many dentists I scoffed at teeth in a day and only four implants as being not only bad dentistry but fraudulent. Now that I have seen the science and the technique I am impressed. BTW that angled distal [...]

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3D Printing and Plastic Guns

May 16, 2013

This relates to the concept I wrote about in Dentalcompare, A Car is not Merely a Faster Horse. We (all of us) need to understand how different the actual world is from the world most of us think we’re living in. Most people believe that tomorrow is going to be substantially identical to today. The [...]

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Transplant jaw made by 3D printer

April 30, 2013

Hmmm, Amazing! A 3D printer-created lower jaw has been fitted to an 83-year-old woman’s face in what doctors say is the first operation of its kind. via BBC News – Transplant jaw made by 3D printer claimed as first.

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Natural Dental Implant

March 23, 2013

More Here: A customized implant for each lost tooth. Interersting, amazing technology but not approved for use in the US. It is in the FDA approval process.

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The Robotic Doctor is In

March 14, 2013

If the robot can take out a gall bladder it should be able to do a dental filling. By 10 am the robot has already carved out an entire human organ.The patient’s gallbladder, riddled with infection, is gone, and in a darkened operating room at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the machine is going back [...]

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Augmented Reality App

March 12, 2013

The linked article shows how online shoppers can use augmented reality to see how a new sofa might look in the living room. …an Android and iOS app which uses augmented reality to let you visualize how products will look in your home. If you want to see a product in your environment, just click the [...]

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Accuracy of technology for placing implants tested

March 4, 2013

I am such a huge fan of high tech it is easy to get carried away. It is good to have some real world research to back up high tech wonders such as Cone Beam CT. The CBCT was found to be accurate and reliable; however, the STL was found to significantly both overestimate and [...]

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3D Printer May Someday Build Human Organs

February 8, 2013

Hmmm In the longer term, the printer could help build organs for transplants or repair. Since the printer can put stem cells in a three-dimensional pattern, it could build a small “patch” for a heart or kidney that would be made from stem cells cloned from the patient via 3D Printer May Someday Build Human [...]

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CAD CAM and Marginal Fit

January 6, 2013

From a D4D press Release: Richardson, TX, January 2, 2013 – A recent study by faculty and students at the Medical University of South Carolina College of Dental Medicine found clinically acceptable marginal fits — regardless of the quality of the preparation — with restorations fabricated with the E4D System. There was a statistically significant [...]

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Cerec Doctors – Blog

December 26, 2012

Cerec Doctors, a great online resource for CEREC and CAD CAM users. With buccal bite we are able to reproduce the patients existing occlusion with incredible accuracy. But when should you take the buccal bite? You will get varying opinions. I prefer to take the buccal bite before I start preparing the teeth. There are [...]

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Eliminate Pesky Impression Gremlins

December 6, 2012

Dentalcompare Article: Consider the lowly impression and the many ways an impression can go wrong via Emmott On Technology: Go Digital to Eliminate Pesky Impression Gremlins | Dentalcompare.com.

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3D Printing and the Democratization of Manufacturing

December 5, 2012

We have been doing this is dentistry forever: Fu said that “all markets in the future will be niche markets” while Weijmarshausen said “the future of manufacturing is not making a lot of a few, but a few of a lot.” via Techonomy: 3D Printing and the Democratization of Manufacturing. In many ways dentistry is [...]

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What’s the Big Deal?

November 12, 2012

I wrote what follows as part of an article for Dental Economics back in 2009. Three years later it is still quite valid and even more important for dentists to understand. We are seeing numerous new digital impression systems come to market like the CEREC Omnicam and the new 3M True Definition as well as [...]

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E4D Sky

November 7, 2012

I have been harping on dental vendors to provide interoperable machines and data for years. The following from E4D release seems to indicate they have taken a big step in that direction. Interoperable systems would mean that I could use a Dexis sensor with Schick software and exchange the image with another dentist using Carestream [...]

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3M True Definition Scanner

October 22, 2012

3M ESPE introduced a new digital scanner at the ADA meeting in San Francisco. It is called the 3M True Definition Scanner and takes the place of the Lava COS system. 3M claims it is more accurate and consistent than other systems. Two great features: It is priced much lower than the other impression scanners [...]

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Delicate Robot

September 14, 2012

Would you expect a robot to be able to pick a flower, crack an egg or more to the point do some dentistry? Check out the video link from Mashable below: http://mashable.com/2012/09/11/robotic-tentacles/ Most of us envision robots as clumsy, vaguely humanoid, steam punk like machines. Of course real robots do not look like humans and [...]

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CEREC Omnicam Video

September 8, 2012

A nice video by Dr. Greg Campbell with the new Cerec Omnicam in action.

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Video Interview CEREC 27 and a Half

August 21, 2012

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Sameer Puri Video

August 18, 2012

Dr. Puri at the 27 and a half meeting with 3D color rimages from the Omnican on the screen behind him.

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Omnicam

August 16, 2012

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