Restoring Dentition with Indirect Restorations using Trios and CEREC Digital Dentistry
A patient with periodontitis and some bone loss seeks restoration at the dental clinic.
Category: 2020
Restoring a Patient with Dental Fear
A patient with anxiety about dental offices seeks care, finds help for her mouth — and her dental fear.
Trios Split Mouth Study
67-year-old male with heavily restored, eroded implants seeks care at the dental school clinic.
TODCO Senior Housing: Serving the Underserved
A great part of nutrition comes from the patient’s ability to eat, but due to much of the geriatric population’s missing dentition and lack of dental care, eating and proper nutrition become very difficult to do on a daily basis. We noticed this from our very first visit to the TODCO (Tenants and Owners Development Corporation) site in San Francisco during our first year.
Species of Yeast Identified in the Plaque of Healthy Patients versus Periodontal Patients
This study focuses on developing a PCR based technique to identify species of yeast in the mouth. The relationship between the species of yeast found in patients with periodontal disease versus healthy patients was also analyzed.
Restoring a Genuine Smile
CC “I want to fix my front teeth,
I haven’t smiled in years. All I want is my smile back.”
Restoration in the Aesthetic Zone for a Patient with Anterior Open Bite
“I want to change the gold crown on my front tooth and make my smile look good.” A restoration performed on a patient with an anterior open bite.
Radiotherapy Considerations for a Prosthodontic-Driven Treatment Plan
A 79-year old woman with partial dentures is treated for broken teeth. A complicating factor is that she had a family history of cancer and had previously received radiotherapy for an acoustic neuroma.
Platelet-Rich Fibrin vs. Connective Tissue Graft: a Literature Review
Gingival defects can be treated in multiple ways. The current gold standard is connective tissue graft (CTG) in order to treat Class I and II Miller defects (Chambrone, 2008). One of the newer procedures is the use of platelet-rich fibrin (PRF) therapy, which involves drawing the patient’s own blood and forming a membrane to heal gingival defects. This literature review looks at scholarly articles comparing the use of PRF to CTG in healing clinical attachment loss (CAL) over a period of 6 months and whether one is more effective than the other in gaining CAL.