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Replacing an Old Metal Crown with All-Ceramic: Colour Is Not the Only Consideration
A dark margin or unnatural colour around an old metal crown may understandably make you want to replace it with an all…
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Is Root Canal Treatment Really That Painful? Pulp Status and Anaesthetic Success Rates Behind the Myth That "Taking the Nerve Out Always Hurts"
If you are afraid of root canal treatment, what you are afraid of is usually the same thing: lying back in the chair, …
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A Root Canal Instrument Has Broken Inside: What Should Guide the Next Step?
Separation of a root canal instrument is a technical event during treatment; it does not mean that the tooth has immed…
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Insufficient bone in the posterior maxilla: short implants or sinus augmentation? Implant length is not the only consideration
Short implants and maxillary sinus augmentation are both approaches that may be discussed when there is insufficient b…
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Why Do Smoking and Glycaemic Control Change a Periodontal Treatment Plan?
Smoking and glycaemic status are worth disclosing proactively before periodontal treatment because both are related to…
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How Should an Implant Plan Be Adjusted If You Smoke or Have Recently Stopped?
Smoking is not an absolute exclusion criterion for every course of implant treatment, but systematic reviews consisten…
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Why Implant Treatment Is Often Staged: Making Sense of How Extraction, Grafting, the Implant and the Restoration Depend on One Another
Implant treatment is often broken down into extraction, ridge preservation or bone grafting, implant placement, osseoi…
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Why Are Regular Appointments Still Needed after Periodontal Treatment Is Complete?
The absence of pain and swelling after periodontal treatment is reassuring progress. Long-term management of periodont…
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What Does a Surgical Guide Do in Implant Surgery? It Supports a Pre-planned Angle and Position, Not the Removal of Risk
A surgical guide is a device designed from your imaging data and worn in the mouth during surgery. Its task is straigh…
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Which Types of Deep Discolouration Can Be Considered for Veneers? Tetracycline-Related Grey-Black Discolouration as an Example
This article discusses just one discolouration scenario: deep discolouration caused by tetracycline during tooth devel…
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Why Is Strict Moisture Control Needed before Placing All-Ceramic Veneers?
All-ceramic veneers are thin. What actually bears daily occlusal loading and temperature changes is not just a sheet o…
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Veneer or all-ceramic crown: the key is how much healthy enamel remains
An all-ceramic veneer mainly covers the visible surface of a front tooth, whereas an all-ceramic crown surrounds more …
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For Slightly Uneven Teeth, Veneers or Orthodontics? First Distinguish ‘Looking Straight’ from ‘Actually Moving the Teeth’
Slightly crowded front teeth, a little crookedness or one tooth rotated by a small amount—this degree of irregularity …
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Which Situations Require Root Canal Treatment? Pulpitis, Pulp Necrosis, Periapical Lesions and Traumatic Fracture
"Needing a root canal" is not a single situation. It covers at least four different scenarios: pulp inflammation that …
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What Types of Teeth Whitening Are There? How Air Polishing, Light-Assisted Whitening and At-Home Whitening Work — and the Different Problems They Address
In the dental surgery, the term ‘teeth whitening’ actually refers to two things with entirely different mechanisms: Th…
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Improving the appearance of front teeth: whitening, veneers, or waiting first?
Front teeth that look insufficiently bright or even do not mean that veneers should be the first step. If the main con…
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Who Needs Full-Mouth Rehabilitation? What Decides It Is Not How Many Teeth Are Missing, but Whether the Whole Occlusal System Can Still Hold Up
Many people assume that full-mouth rehabilitation is "the major undertaking reserved for those who have lost a great m…
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How Long Do Dental Implants Last? What Decides Their Lifespan, and How to Keep Yours for Longer
Implants are a very stable long-term option — across the implants included in research reviews, survival rates are gen…
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