Clinicians Report January 2024, Volume 17 Issue 1

The Rising Popularity of Digital Impressions

This report provides an overview of current digital impression use, key considerations when acquiring an intraoral scanner, and test results for three scanners recently evaluated.

• Current Digital Impression Use
• Is now the time to incorporate digital impressions? Yes and No.
• Intraoral Scanner Evaluations
• CR Conclusions

Elevate Your Dental Assistants and Enhance Your Practice

In this article, CR uses survey results along with expert advice to make specific recommendations to help educate dental assistants (DAs); identifies the Top 5 essential DA skills and gives specific advice on how a DA can learn these tasks; and focuses on how skill and technique enhancement improves overall patient care.

• Foster a Learning-Friendly Environment (Guided Learning)
• The Five Skills Critical for Every Assistant and Tips for Mastery
• CR Conclusions

Can Natural Teeth Be Successfully Connected to Implants?

If the edentulous space is longer than you consider acceptable for a fixed prosthesis, an implant placed at an appropriate location in the space can provide a shorter edentulous space if you connect the implant to a strong natural tooth. Later in this article you will find specific proven requirements to make this choice serve successfully.

• Situations when Tooth/Implant Connection is One of the Alternatives 
• Bone Requirements
• Implant Requirements
• Technique for Connecting Teeth to Implants
• References
• 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.

• Ultra-thin Finishing Disk Kit Helps Accomplish High-Quality Surfaces on Composite and Ceramic
• One-Shade Flowable Resin Helps Easily Accomplish Color Match
• Hydrogen Peroxide Gel Treatment for Gingiva and Improving Periodontal Health
• Dual-Barrel Syringe Mixed Resin-Modified Glass Ionomer Cement

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