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 MEDICINE… WITH FAST SURGERY (ONLY SLOW PEOPLE CAN BELIEVE THAT BEING FAST IS NOT IMPORTANT)
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 SURGICAL TECHNIQUE OF CLINICAL CROWN LENGHTENING: ACT 2
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…
HOW TO FIND THE STRAIGHT WAY YOU LOST: CAN YOU CORRECT A FALSE PATH?
“Midway in the journey of our life I came to myself in a dark wood, for the straight way was lost” My working week has always ended on Saturday, not on Friday. So it is…
HERE’S HOW NOT TO MESS UP IN IMPLANTOLOGY, SLEEP LIKE A BABY (AND TRANSPOSE A SECONDARY MANDIBULAR FORAMEN)
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”…
HOW TO REMOVE A FIBER POST?…DON’T MISS THIS POST!
Removal of fiber posts, and of posts in general, is the first step to take to access the canals of many teeth and retreat them. There’s a trick to remove every single kind of post. In this post I…
DO YOU KNOW THE BASICS OF ORAL SURGERY
In the previous videos I showed you an intermediate level surgery trying to give you all the information to carry it out correctly, and a highly advanced level surgery showing you some tricks to get excellent healing. Today I really…
EXTERNAL ROOT RESORPTION: THE GREAT UNKNOWN
The external root resorption is, in my opinion, a phenomenon many dentists are not even aware of. Let alone capable of treating it properly. Hoping you are one of the colleagues who knows what I am talking about, let me…
REASONS WHY YOU SOMETIMES FIND BAD HEALING WHILE REMOVING THE SUTURE. THREE SECRETS TO DEAL SURGICALLY WITH SOFT TISSUE.
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…
IN SEARCH OF THE LOST CANAL! THE MIDDLE-MESIAL CANAL
February 2015 was a very important day that changed my way of practising endodontics. In fact, I happened to read an article that played a central role in changing my approach to mandibular molars. As many of you, for me…