There are mainly two aspects that can characterize an implant case as complex: When the lack of a bone prevents you from placing the implant. When the elements that need rehabilitation have relevant aesthetic implications. Having to deal…


There are mainly two aspects that can characterize an implant case as complex: When the lack of a bone prevents you from placing the implant. When the elements that need rehabilitation have relevant aesthetic implications. Having to deal…

Slow food, slow medicine, slow dentist… I think this is the order they showed up. All these trends were born in Italy in the latest years and propose a sort of ethical approach to their respective fields. The Slowmedicine…

THE PURELY PALATINE APPROACH. I’ve already talked about the clinical crown lenghtening but I want to talk about that again, since it’s a kind of surgery that happens in a dental practice on a daily basis. Today I want to…

I pretty often happen to visit patients who tell me things like: “Doc, you can’t place an implant there, my previous dentist had started the surgery but then stitched everything up, telling me there was no bone at all, there”…

There’s a famous saying in dentistry colleges (or at least it is famous where I studied). It goes like this: “(KEEP CALM)EVERYTHING SELF-HEALS IN THE MOUTH” A nice saying for old school dentists, the kind of dentist who wouldn’t worry too…

I’m sorry, but even if you don’t devote yourself to surgery, you’ve got to be able to perform a CLINICAL CROWN LENGHTENING anyways. Or rather, in your practice, where you work with several colleagues, someone must be able to carry out…

Let me tell you something. Mastering Dentistry is an Italian blog, born with the aim of training younger dentists, or the elderly ones who are willing and humble enough to prove themselves, because they feel our profession is changing. It…