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Using a custom anterior guide table with complex cases. If you are planning to treat patients with more complex dental problems you should consider using an anterior guide table. Many patients with tooth wear, especially pathway wear and restricted envelopes will have milled out the envelope of function that they feel comfortable with. It would be wise to recreate this pattern in the restorations you make for them when you restore their case. One of the best techniques to recreate this pattern is to make a custom anterior guide table for your case using the accurate, mounted study models on […]

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Flapless Dental Implant Surgery: 1 Week Post-Surgical Photos

Dr Stephen Phelan January 18, 2011

One Week after Minimally Invasive Implant Surgery I thought I would share some photos from the one-week post-operative appointment with the implant surgery case I posted last week in this blog. As you can see the case has healed really well at the one-week mark and the tissue looks excellent. The patient reported virtually no pain, swelling or bleeding post surgery and should be ready for the final impression next month. If you are noticing a subtle difference in the color between the pictures in the 2 posts it is because they were taken in different rooms with different cameras. […]

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Plumber’s tape for dentistry

Dr Stephen Phelan January 16, 2011

Plumber’s tape can have many uses in your dental practice. One product that is really inexpensive and useful to have around your dental practice is plumber’s tape. You can buy it for a few dollars at the local Canadian Tire or hardware store and it can be very handy for isolation. If you look at the pictures attached to this post I have isolated the adjacent teeth with plumber’s tape so I can etch and bond the veneer preparations without damaging the adjacent teeth. This isolation technique prevents etchant and adhesive from contaminating the adjacent tooth structure, which can lead […]

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Flapless Dental Implant Surgery

Dr Stephen Phelan January 8, 2011

I wanted to post a couple of photos from an implant I placed on Thursday. The implant was a Straumann bone level implant. The surgery was completed with a Simplant Surgiguide and the implant was placed without a flap through a 4.0 mm tissue punch. I have talked about this technique on my YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/phelandentalseminars and I wanted to share some photos from this case with everyone to illustrate how great the site looks post surgery using this approach. You will notice the only incision is the tissue punch and no sutures were required. I measured the stability with […]

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Mac Network Running Abeldent

Dr Stephen Phelan January 8, 2011

We have just completed the installation of a new Apple computer network in my office and I am happy to report that it is working the way that I had hoped. I had a vision to create a Apple network with iMac workstations running Mac applications as well as Abeldent and Sidexis at the same time using Parallels and the Mac OS. I thought about switching to MacPractice but I was worried that I would loose too much data in the conversion. The other reason I decided to stick with Abeldent is that my digital radiography system did not have […]

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Block Booking for Complex Dentistry and Full Mouth Rehabilitation

Dr Stephen Phelan December 31, 2010

Have you ever had a patient come into your practice wanting some complex dental care completed on a shorter time frame and your schedule was full for the next 6 weeks with less productive smaller restorative treatment? Did the patient eventually go to someone else to have the work completed? In this post I wanted to talk to all of you about taking control of your schedule. If you are interested about treating larger cases in your practice (anything from 6 to 28 units) you will need the time available in your schedule to devote to these patients without rushing. […]

Full Mouth Rehabilitation with Porcelain Restorations

Dr Stephen Phelan December 30, 2010

I just posted a new video that will provide you with some ideas and thoughts about treating complex full mouth cases. I talk about a case I am currently working on as an example of one way to sequence a full mouth case. My patient has a posterior crossbite and an end-to-end incisor relationship and would like to have longer front teeth with more tooth display.

Dental Implant Problems and Solutions

Dr Stephen Phelan December 30, 2010

I posted a new video about a common problem we all have from time to time with dental implant components. In this video I discuss the problem of stripped screw heads and I share with you the solutions that we used to solve this and make it possible for us to complete the cases.

Dental Restorations with Renamel Flowable Microfill

Dr Stephen Phelan October 18, 2010

In this video Dr. Stephen Phelan demonstrates a technique to restore dental errosion cavities with a flowable composite resin.

iPhone 4 review, no dropped calls

Dr Stephen Phelan October 18, 2010

In this video, Dr. Stephen Phelan talks about the iPhone 4 and dropped calls in Canada. Dr. Phelan also shares some photos from the Turks and Caicos Islands, Grace Bay Beach and the Seven Stars Resort.

Envelope of Function, Part 1

Flapless Dental Implant Surgery: 1 Week Post-Surgical Photos

Plumber’s tape for dentistry

Flapless Dental Implant Surgery

Mac Network Running Abeldent

Block Booking for Complex Dentistry and Full Mouth Rehabilitation

Full Mouth Rehabilitation with Porcelain Restorations

Dental Implant Problems and Solutions

Dental Restorations with Renamel Flowable Microfill

iPhone 4 review, no dropped calls

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