Clinicians Report February 2024, Volume 17 Issue 2

Solutions for Staffing Shortages in 2024

How can we mitigate the damage from staffing changes, how do we make them less likely, and how do we attract quality people? This article provides potential solutions for these critical tasks.

• Loss Prevention: Tips to Keep your Staff from Wanting to Leave
• What are COMPETITIVE benefits and pay?
• Key Competencies (KC)
• Make Education and Training of Staff one of your Key Competencies
• The Advance Notice Bonus: Smooth your Transitions
• The Farm System: Ways to have Good People Waiting “in the Wings”
• Where to Find Good Candidates
• Make your “Want Ads” Attractive, Exciting!
• CR Conclusions

3D-Printed Ceramic Crowns—A First Look

This report examines the potential advantages and limitations of 3D-printed ceramic materials, and compares current brands with other popular materials.

• Printed Ceramic Crowns
• 3D-Printed Ceramic Crown Workflow
• Comparison of Permanent/Long-term Dental Crown Materials
• How will 3D-Printed Resin-Ceramic Crowns Serve Long Term?
• CR Conclusions

Is It Time to Return to Conventional Glass Ionomer Cement?

This article suggests the need to re-evaluate cements and suggests some changes.

• Summary and Critique of CR Survey
• Previous Dental Cement Challenges and Advantages
• Solving the Major Problems with Current Cements
• Conventional GI Technique
• Physical Property Comparison (24 hr)—Gi cs. RMGI
• CR Conclusions

Products Rated Highly by CR Scientists and Clinical Evaluators

The following products were rated excellent or good by CR Evaluator clinical use and CR Science evaluations.

• Lower Cost, Low-Speed, Air-Driven Handpiece Set
• Low Cost Phosphoric Acid Etching Gel With Deep Blue Color for Visibility and Control
• Easy-to-Use Temporary Resin with a Variety of Helpful Applications
• Lower Cost, Effective, and Sterilizable Kit of Spiral-Wheel Polishers and Finishers for Composites

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