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Getting some amazing results from the KOR Whitening System. What’s your go-to for in office whitening? 🤩

Happy Valentines Day to you and yours! 😘

This poor guy got an elbow to the face while playing basketball last night! Was so happy we could repair the damage for him today with a conservative resin restoration. Got his smile back just in time for Valentine’s Day. Composite used: @tokuy

#8 E.max crown delivery: matching a single central incisor is always a tough process! Tooth went necrotic from trauma, received RCT, and had a discolored provisional for years. Challenges I faced: space for #8 is wider than #9, high smile line, gingi

#2-15 PFM crowns: had a long but successful delivery appointment 💪🏻. So ecstatic. Will post the before and after patient photos tomorrow! Finishing up my last week of residency and then I'm finally off to private practice. 🤓

A tale of two implant crowns: this is the first implant crown I restored via digital impression with the Trios 3 Shape. #4 implant was immediately placed by the surgeon, and during healing incurred some bone loss. I was left with zero soft tissue eme

#10-11 cantilevered bonded E.max Maryland bridge. Patient has been wearing a flipper for years now. Without GBR and ortho, buccal bone defect and M-D width is too narrow to support even a 3mm implant. After evaluating the patient's occlusion and smil

#8, 9 custom cast dowel core. Patient presented with missing #8, 9 crowns.  Previous dentist attempted to bond E.max to <3mm height of dentin 🤔 and crowns were remade twice and fell off three times! I decided it is best to mechanically retai

$Refractory cast for maxillary RPD. This is the first time I’ve seen the wax up of a framework before processing—so cool! 💙💚❤️ Plan to open up the patient’s VDO using overlay occlusal rests. This is to gain space to set anterior te$

#23-26 all ceramic crown preparations. One really helpful step (especially for avoiding over-reduction in really small teeth) is to have wax ups of the final crown contours ready before the appointment. This allowed me to use a putty stent to make a

Implant placements #3 and #4 following LISA sinus augmentation. Zimmer implants come with a driver attachment (green) which I find is a useful tool for comparing angulation when placing multiple implants. It also prevents the implant from falling off

Lateral and Internal Sinus Augmentation (LISA): my first encounter with the delicate Schneiderian membrane 😳. With an average thickness of 1-2.5mm, membrane perforation occurs in almost 30% of direct sinus lift cases 😓. This technique utilizes spec

#18 RCT: SIP/SAP one of the first molar endo cases I did as an AEGD resident. Access through full gold crown, rotary and warm vertical on M canals and hand instrumentation and cold lateral on D canal. Some CaOH remaining near the apex that was extrud

#2 gold onlay: large composite with recurrent decay extending subgingival interproximally. I'm very happy that my patient chose gold, and she is too! 😉(swipe to see the casting intaglio and prep). I wasn't 💯 satisfied with the prep, especially sinc

#14 implant placement after sinus augmentation. Healing abutment was placed single stage to enable soft tissue apical repositioning. This was an effort to gain additional keratinized tissue buccal to the implant where it was lacking. All implants I&r

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