Chasolen Education

This is a great illustration of the benefit of a core and surgical provisional. I am not showing the surgical steps here, just simply the progression from initial presentation of recurrent caries to core build up to surgical provisional. Notice the core is built out as far circumferentially to the original margin as possible. During […]

Case treated in November 2005. Patient was new to the area from New Jersey. She had been seeing the same dentist for years. The dentist told her if she ran into a dentist in Florida that told her there was anything wrong that she should leave immediately because everything was in perfect shape. We need

There are times when we like to blame patients for the failure of our dentistry. And at times that may be true. But often, we are to blame ourselves for the breakdown and failure of our patients dentistry. Of course it is a shared responsibility. When we don’t provide the best quality dentistry to our

This case illustrates the benefit of restorative dentistry and it’s ongoing serviceability and extended prognosis enhanced by the team work with a periodontist. So what I am showing here is a completely unrelated x-ray to the case below it. The x-ray illustrates a case shown on an online forum in the mid 2000’s. People were

A couple of quick pointers about maxillary implants. This is a recipe for trouble. This case had several existing implants that were utilizing locators to retain a maxillary overdenture while older failed sites were healing. Eventually, new implants were placed in a one stage fashion with tall healing abutments. The maxillary overdenture was then re-utilized

The diagnostic wax up is one of our most significant tools in planning functional and cosmetic dentistry. It can be done by hand, digitally or a combination of the 2.  Diagnostic wax ups should always be done with direction from the dentist regarding tooth position, cosmetic desire and occlusal functionality. Some wax up to par

This case was hopeless. 80 something year old man. Hopeless caries he was told. But he didn’t want to lose his teeth and didn’t want to go through implants either. So, we did our normal caries  control and periodontal correction protocol. I did not lose one tooth. Palatal root  amps by Daniel Melker. A great example