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Digital Captek: a New, Easier Way to Fabricate Captek Restorations

Rob Teachout, BS, CDT, shares the step-by-step technique for using Argen's new digital service for high-strength, Digital Captek restorations.

PFM Restorations Transform Patient's Smile

Restoring the smile of a dentist’s relative can be particularly challenging. Here, Luke Kahng shares how he transformed the smile of a client’s mother-in-law with two PFM bridges and one PFM crown.

Lakeland Dental Technologies: Streamlining Workflow, Improving Efficiency

In just one year, Lakeland Dental Technologies, Grand Rapids, MN, has improved consistency, reduced remakes, and nearly eliminated hand waxing using the complete Jensen Digital Solution.

10 Tips For Pressing Success With Programat® Pressing Furnaces From Ivoclar Vivadent

Proper calibration and spruing techniques are just two of the ways to ensure you're getting the most accurate results with Ivoclar Vivadent¹s Programat® Pressing Furnaces.

Soft Tissue Management With An ITero Milled Model and Straumann Repositionable Implant Analog

Specializing in implant borne prosthetics, Midwest Dental Arts has discovered a technique to improve soft tissue management that we want to share. This is the first of a 2-part article that illustrates how to create a soft tissue model, using an iTero milled model with the Straumann Repositionable Implant...

Proper Shading On Straumann's CAD/CAM Zirconia Material

Both zirconia and metal lack fluorescent qualities, which we should attempt to re-create when restoring the oral cavity with fixed prosthetic restorations. When applying porcelain to a zirconia or metal coping or framework, it is helpful to use a porcelain material that has fluorescent properties to...

Nine Bright Ideas For Shade-matching Success

> Here are nine simple, yet very powerful, strategies that will dramatically increase the success rate of any shade-sensitive case, whether it involves bleached shades or not: One- Annotate everything you do very carefully, including: the opaques and opaque modifiers used; the recipe for the opaceous...

Doing It White

STRATEGIES for MATCHING BLEACHED DENTITION

Titanium: Standardized Techniques For Success

By knowing your product and standardizing your techniques—and sticking to them—you can be successful in processing titanium restorations.

Going Digital: 3D Data Capture For the Fabrication of Titanium Frameworks

The NextSmile virtual technique and service offers laboratories a labor-saving way to fabricate custom-milled titanium frameworks.

Raising the Bar to Meet Demand For Implant-Supported Dentures

Frank Munzenmayer, CDT, explains how to fabricate an overdenture implant bar without soldering, casting, laser welding or milling using the pre-fabricated SFI Bar from Cendres+Métaux.

The Kolbeck Technique

Josef Kolbeck offers a step-by-step look at his time- and material-saving method of processing a fixed removable denture with the pouring technique that he uses at Town & Country Dental Studios in Freeport, NY.

How to Combine All-Ceramic Anterior and PFM Posterior Restorations For Seamless Esthetics

Russell DeVreugd shows how to blend pressed restorations with PFMs.

From the Series: Faster, Smarter, Better: 36 Strategies to Boost Your Business

Faster, Smarter, Better Technical Strategies to Boost Your Business: What Technical Strategies Do You Use to Boost Your Business?

#### Problem: It's hard to achieve consistency in our work even with a final Q/C check. Strategy: While a final case inspection is important, it shouldn't be the only quality control system in place. Building a system of checks and balances into the entire production process allows you to find and...

How to Fabricate An Esthetic Transitional Partial

This case exemplifies how attention to detail, use of new materials and good communication with the dental team can result in restorations that disappear in the oral environment.

Case Study By Michael Morris and Dr. Fred Arnold: Teamwork is the Key to Matching Single Central

Michael Morris and Dr. Fred Arnold, Lexington Smiles, Lexington, KY

Case Study By Matt Roberts and Dr.Frankie Shull: Communication Critical to Success of Thin Veneers

Matt Roberts, CMR Dental Lab, Idaho Falls, ID, and Dr. Frankie Shull, Lexington, SC

Case Study: Teamwork is the Key to Matching Single Central

Michael Morris and Dr. Fred Arnold, Lexington Smiles, Lexington, KY

How to Create Vitality in Zirconia Restorations

This case study- co-authored with Andrew Maples and Heather Crouch- exemplifies the vital results that can be achieved using the latest CAD/CAM technology and a new-generation zirconia material.

How to Fabricate An Esthetic Porcelain- To-Titanium Restoration

Luke Kahng, CDT, offers his step-by-step technique for fabricating a porcelain-to-titanium restoration using Nobel Biocare's NobelProcera scanner and GC's Initial™ Titanium porcelain.

The Digital Workflow of a Diazir Full Contour Zirconia Restoration

Steve Dearien, CDT, Owner of Sundance Dental Laboratory—who augments his own in-house digital technology by outsourcing some restorations to Diadem Precision Technology—shares a recent Diazir™ Full Contour Zirconia case from start to finish.

How to Build a Fixed Ceramic-Acrylic Hybrid Bridge

Andrea Hegedus, CDT, Owner of Great Lakes Smile Design Studio, shares the case that won her second prize for Best Digital Documentation in Candulor’s 9th KunstZahnWerk Competition.

Technician's Gallery

Fabricating and matching a single central is challenging enough; Ceramist Alwyn Naraine did it in under three hours.

Laser Welding Technology For Partial Denture Repairs

With the advancement of new laser technology, the expansion of laser welding applications in all areas of the laboratory has become a real asset.