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It can be difficult for dentists and orthodontists to perform dental procedures on young patients. Children already have a tendency to squirm or quickly grow restless, and that’s before you start putting anything into their mouths.

The faster a dentist can complete a procedure, the less stress a young patient will endure, and the better the experience will be for all! If you need to place crowns in the mouth of a pediatric patient, consider our special pediatric strip crowns.

Specially made to be easily trimmed and filled with composite, they are also thin and offer superior anatomy strips.  No collars to cut or seams to split. Minimal chair…

Are you famous for misplacing your keys? Forgetting birthdays? Do you struggle to remember names or even the emails you read the day before? How are you sleeping these days? If you suspect that you have sleep apnea, it just might be stealing your memory!

Every single moment of your waking day, stimuli is pours into your mind. At night, your sleeping mind catalogues and consolidates these memories, essentially anchoring the more important ones in your mind so you can remember them in the morning.

If you have sleep apnea, you could be waking up hundreds of times a night and never entering into the important REM and slow-wave sleep cycles that are necessary for filtering and consolidating memories.

So…

As a periodontist, you are on the forefront of fighting gum disease. Since gum disease is the leading cause of tooth loss, you more than any other type of dentist, fight to save your patients’ beautiful smiles. In cases where saving teeth isn’t possible, you use your knowledge and skill to place implants so a patient can smile with confidence.

Part of building your new practice includes stocking up on the right supplies so you’ll always be ready no matter what patient walks through your door or what unforeseen complication arises. At Space Maintainers Laboratories, we want to be your periodontal appliance provider. Our worldwide network of dental laboratories means you can get the supplies you need quickly and…

If you find that you need to move a patient’s tooth labially, your first thought might be to use a micro-screw.  Not your only option!

The Recurved Finger Spring is a great alternative to a micro-screw. It can be designed to help push a tooth forward so that it lines up evenly with the rest of the teeth – and can also be fabricated to correct minor rotations.

You can easily activate the springs. Just use a pair of 139 Bird-Beak pliers to pull forward on the spring’s arm.  If the tooth in question is decidedly vertical, you’ll want to leave the acrylic over the top of the finger spring. If the lingual incline of the tooth is shallow, then you can place the composite ledge on the…

THE GATEWAY TO ORAL HEALTH: Helping the Respiratory-at-Risk Breathe Easier

Entrenched as we are today in the prevalence of COVID-19 and its disturbingly relentless resurgences, it behooves us to consider the viral gateway that has made such devastation possible. Accumulating evidence over the past decade has suggested that oral disorders, particularly periodontal disease may indeed influence the course of respiratory infections.

The gateway? Inflammation creates bacterial plaque which can be aspirated into the lungs where colonization and infection result in airway compromise, increased immunological susceptibility, and full-on obstructive pulmonary infection.

Consequently, eliminating gum disease from this picture could prove to be of significant…