• I was thinking yesterday, could I substitute Liquid Bandages for PeriAcryl? It could be a significant cost savings. Nowhere on the liquid bandage bottle did it say oral wounds are contraindicated. What do you think?

    • Our oral pathologist recommends liquid bandage to cover ulcers

    • Rethinking Everyday Instruments: The Case of Minnesota Retractors

      Have you ever considered the everyday instruments we use that seem poorly designed or cause unnecessary discomfort? As someone who spends long hours in the operating room, I’ve certainly had my fair share of frustrations. One instrument that stands out to me is the Minnesota…

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    • What are your tips or tricks for making sure your implant is in the correct restorative position?

      When placing Implants freehand, it’s easy to judge the mesial and distal angulation, but often tricky to judge buccal lingual orientation. Here’s what you can do to make sure you are in the correct restorative position – use the opposing dentition!

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      • love it. I do the same thing for overdenture patients! This is specially useful if you don’t have the adjacent teeth for reference! Thanks for sharing man! 🙌

      • Hey Guys. I have an immediate implant for site #7 with a signif PARL, prob cystic. pt has no significant reported med hx. As this case approaches im asking myself weather physical debridments and pre/post op abx are enough to prevent infection/early failure. Thankfully in general after 8 years of placing implants ive only had a few of…

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        • Because CHX can inhibit fibroblasts and osteoblasts I’m always wary of using it in these cases. I go the systemic abx route.

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        • I find peridex to be highly effective in infected extraction sites and use it regularly with great success of many immediate implants. I don’t find the negative effects to be clinically significant b/c the site to continually bleeding. I don’t use it for healing post op and many other situations but after extracting infected teeth and those…

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