I am happy to be back to sharing my clinical experiences with you again. The sun is shining, birds are out and all of us can agree that things are…
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One of the activities that I miss most about my training program is literature review. Throughout my career in dentistry, I have discussed dental literature with my colleagues. But in…
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I have probably mentioned this before, but I owe a significant debt of gratitude to all of those folks over the years who took the time to teach me. Whether…
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In a personal communication with a colleague of mine, I was asked what my motivation was for maintaining a blog about endodontics. While I was able to answer the question…
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Endodontics is a gift to all of us. For the patient it provides a path to health, free from discomfort. For the dental professional it provides us an opportunity to…
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Throughout my day, I consider the balance of risk and benefit for patients in attempting to help them resolve their dental problems. In the case below, I needed to resolve…
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Golf season is still here. As you might imagine, brevity is of the utmost importance. Parallax: The effect whereby the position or direction of an object appears to differ when viewed…
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Acute curvatures are a part of doing endodontics. The more cases you treat, the better the chances that you will encounter them. These curvatures are not limited to molar teeth,…
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Fiber posts came into vogue in the last decade. There are a whole host of reasons why people like them and use them in many different types of teeth. Despite…
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Cast posts, titanium posts, threaded posts, stainless steel posts, intentionally separated instruments, unintentionally separated instruments, plastic thermafil carriers, metal thermafil carriers, stainless steel wire, silver points and the list of…
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