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Spear Education Announces International Speaker Line Up for Summit 2024

Dentistry Today

Rotondo, a registered prosthodontist with a passion for aesthetic dentistry, reconstructive dentistry, and implant dentistry, will explore the realm of indirect restorations and veneers. He brings a wealth of knowledge from his role as a Visiting Professor at prestigious universities and his active engagement in private practice and research.

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Three-Dimensional Facial Scanning: A New Paradigm

Dentistry Today

Visit 2: Teeth are prepared for crowns or veneers with all ideal parameters: facial reduction, occlusion reduction, and color reduction for minimal prep cases. A final 3D Facial scan with RAYFace is made and sent to the lab for fabrication of final crowns or veneers (Figures 15 to 17). J Prosthodont. REFERENCES 1. Prosthesis.

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Predictable Approach to Indirect Mixed-Media Cosmetic Dentistry

Dentistry Today

For example, there is a difference in tooth preparations for veneer preps vs crown preps. More than 15 years ago, her anterior teeth were corrected with veneers and a resin-based fixed bridge. The retracted view shows the extreme staining of her existing anterior veneers and bridge (Nos. mm porcelain veneers.

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Why am I Experiencing Clinical Failures?

Dentistry Gone Digital

These are situations like porcelain breaking, crowns or veneers de-bonding, and spaces opening up around teeth. And once the occlusion is functionally stable, then we can do our prosthodontic treatment with great degrees of stability. All of those things are related to not having good control of the occlusion.

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Exploring Leaders in the CAD/CAM Dental Market

Dentistry Today

CAD/CAM systems have become pivotal in the design and fabrication of dental prosthodontics , including crowns, veneers, bridges, and dentures. The focus remains significantly on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, illustrating the market’s behavior in 2020 and potential trajectories beyond.

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Accuracy of 3-dimensional printing of dental casts: A proposal for quality standardization

Dental News and Technology

The Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry Available online 14 January 2021 Abstract Statement of problem A digital workflow in fixed prosthodontics may use a 3D printer to obtain a cast for porcelain application. Only 7 of 17 casts being assessed were deemed suitable for veneering of the copings. The oversized dies were the worst.

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A Simplified, Completely Digital Workflow for Full-Arch Temporary Restorations

Dentistry Today

This new resin can be used to fabricate permanent full-contour crowns, inlays, onlays, and veneers. J Adv Prosthodont. It is an FDA 510(k)-cleared, biocompatible, light-curable resin designed to be used with specific CAD/CAM systems in combination with manufacturer-validated 3D printing and light-curing devices. 2011;142(3):310–20.