Survivorship Bias
Survivorship bias. It’s what happens when we only look at the survivors (the cases, the people, the outcomes that made it through) and lose sight of the ones that didn’t make it, or that we
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Tag: Custom Resin Matrix
Custom Resin Matrix: 9 Years Ago…
This is the same patient as the prior post but contralateral side. She had extensive decay under the existing crown which didn’t leave much to work with. It was a pretty tough case to band
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Custom Resin Matrix
Terminal teeth are tough to band and keep rubber dam isolation. So we came up with an alternative- the custom resin matrix. Using green opaldam we make a custom matrix to pack amalgam with or
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Frustum Retention
Keeping the preparation conservative even in the last 2-3 mm helps in retaining the core. The shape of the access here is a frustum, or pyramid with the tip cut off. This providees a macro-retentive
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Deep Margin Management
Deep caries and the resulting deep margins can be a restorative problem especially when the patient has a history of interproximal caries or a “high caries hostility index”. Generally speaking it’s better to have
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Bridge Retreatment
The patient presented with pain on the distal abutment of the bridge. Clinical examination revealed caries and that the bridge was loose on the mesial abutment. The patient wasn’t interested in implant therapy due
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