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WHAT IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST challenges dental assistants face? I would say it’s pouring bubble-free impressions. How many times have your staff poured models full of voids? Patients must then return for another impression, and there goes your chair time and product. Pouring accurate models is extremely important because inaccurate ones affect subsequent phases of …
Bubbles are the bane of every model maker’s existence, and it was no different for Jerri James, CDT, a dental technician at CenTex Dental Lab in Waco, Texas. She was frustrated by the complications bubbles caused and was finding that traditional surfactants were not doing the job properly. She needed a true bubble buster. Enter …
“It’s just easy to use and it does give a really nice shine. If you’ve missed a spot with the glaze, you can just polish it with Z-Shine and not worry about having to do another coat of glaze.” —KIM BURSON Creating a beautiful smile in the lab can often depend on the finishing touches. …
Jerri James, CDT, a dentaltechnician at CenTex Dental Lab in Waco, Texas, can hardly remember a time before Wonderfill. Hard-pressed to say exactly how long she’s been using it in her lab, she can’t imagine going back to how things were before. “We’ve been using it for at least 10 years,” she says. “I’m not …
The Zir-Perfect CAD/CAM Zirconia Disc, a highly translucent zirconia, provides superb strength and durability, long-term stability, high natural translucency, and excellent esthetics to ensure a beautiful and stable restoration. Introduced in March 2020 by Dental Creations, Ltd., Zir-Perfect features a 3-point flexural strength of 1200 Mpa after sintering and a natural translucency of 43%. Compatible …
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Polishing rather than glazing is the superior means for final touches to restorations for this author, who polishes all zirconia and lithium disilicate with Z-Shine Diamond Polish from Dental Creations, Ltd. by Danny Diebel, CDT, FNBC THE ART OF creating a beautiful smile lies with the lab technician’s finishing touches. Thus, the debate of glazing …
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Vacuum forming and microave-cured resins allowed one lab to refine the denture fabrication process without additional chair time. WHAT IF A denture fabrication product could offer many clinical benefits without any change in clinical time or technique? (Figure 1) Duplicates and maintains border roll clinically established by either functional or compound bordering of the impression. …
Wonderfill was developed primarily to fill in the tongue area for mandibular alginate impressions, but clinicians continue to find innovative ways of using this simple and inexpensive material, e.g., blocking out lingual appliances that would interfere with alginate impressions. In the following situation, a RPE would interfere with an impression for indirect bonding of the …
Dental Creations, the Texas-based, family-owned and operated manufacturing business, has released a brand-new line of zirconia products. Stronger than porcelain, zirconia crowns have a five-year survival rate of 99%. Between the new Zir-Perfect zirconia disc, Z-tray, and Z-Beads, Dental Creations covers dentists with high-quality products that provide patients with long-lasting results. The unique Z-Tray Vented …