Looking to satisfy the demand for both speed and safety with motorized IPR, ContacEZ has unveiled its latest product—SupraDisc. Designed for use with Invisalign®, ClearCorrect, eCligner, Six Month Smiles®, and other orthodontic treatments, SupraDisc offers orthodontists and general dentists a new, safe, and efficient way to effectively perform what has often been a worrisome procedure.
Crown Margin vs. Composite Margin
Pearls For Your Practice
Are your crown preps prepped enough?: A few tricks to ensure adequate occusal reduction
Inventor’s Inspiration for PrepSure
Crown Seating Made Simple and Easy
An Efficient Way to Adjust Proximal Contacts of Partial Dentures
Pink Hygienist Strip—Handy for More than Just Stain Removal
After the cementation of crowns, all the visible cement is removed and floss passes smoothly, making it easy to assume that all of the cement has been cleaned up. But as a final check, when an x-ray is taken, a little piece of resin cement is found just below the proximal contact area, hidden in the subgingival area and stuck to the enamel surface.
Vaseline Saves Dentists from Tough Situations
Why PrepSure
PrepSure is used to confirm that the proper amount of reduction has been performed on crown abutments—neither insufficient nor over-reduction—to avoid necessitating metal occlusion and prevent premature crown breakage. This, in turn, maximizes the longevity of the crowns and prevents hypersensitivity after crown seating.
Crown Preparation under Partial Denture
Introducing PrepSure - Crown Preparation Guide
I needed an instrument to guide and confirm the occlusal clearance mechanically to create ideal abutments every time for every patient. This avoids all the guesswork and any further waste of costly chair time, which could compromise an otherwise excellent patient experience.
And with that, PrepSure was born.
A Method of Cementation of Multiple Crowns
Consistency and Accuracy with the Gray Final Polishing Strip
Pink Hygienist Strip, the Stain Remover
Tea or coffee stains between crowded, lower anterior teeth are very common and can be hard to reach with scaler tips. My hygienists worked diligently to remove tiny traces of stains that were inevitably left, but found the task very difficult. This on-going problem inspired me to develop the ContacEZ Pink Strip.
Removal of a Broken Implant
Adjust and Confirm Interproximal Relief
When seating crowns, Interproximal Relief (IR) should be restored as it exists in natural dentition. IR is the passive contact or microscopic clearance between teeth when they are in rest position. In my experiments, this clearance cannot be properly detected with floss, because floss is too thick and an inaccurate measuring device.