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I picked up a patient through our preventive dentistry clinic where we do a couple of rotations through each semester. These patients are recall patients who have had dental work done at Temple and come in periodically to maintain their oral health. If the ‘prevdent’ patient happens to have another dental need that [...]

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It helps to see the process before you do it for the first time. Make sure to add BORAX (I didn’t add any in the video and it still turned out, but better safe than sorry)
Enjoy!
Gold Crown Part I
Gold Crown Part II

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I haven’t been as diligent in picture taking this year. Partly due to a broken camera for the first month and partly due to time crunches in lab. When you are trying to pass off crown preps, wax-ups, provisionals, and get castings done for a porcelain fused to metal casting the last thing [...]

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The need for a custom tray arises for a couple of reasons: The impression material is typically an elastomeric compound and these types of materials are most accurate when they have a uniform thickness. The custom tray allows the material to have a uniform thickness. Stock trays do not fit the mouth as well because [...]

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UPDATE (11/14/2007) : Added videos of the Gold Casting Process.
Our final project in Restorative II is to make a gold crown from start to finish. Looking at all the steps required to make a gold crown can give you an ulcer. In total it took about 2-3 weeks of work. When I say 2-3 weeks [...]

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1) We got this in our dental school email today and even though it is a year old I had never seen it and thought it was a very cool story. Cliffs notes: A SGT rounded the corner in a house being raided and came face to face with a 9mm handgun. [...]

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It’s a vacuform also called vacuumform or vac-u-form. It is a device used to suck down heated plastic onto a figure or mold allowing the plastic to take the shape of the mold. I find it very fun to use and am still building up courage to use it on my face. [...]

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I felt like I needed a more interesting title than Crown and Acrylic…that is so boring. Most people will find it boring reading about a random student in a random city practicing dentistry on plastic teeth and bragging about it on the internet…it doesn’t quite shout out ‘READ ME’. I decided to spunk [...]

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Just before finals we started working the fixed prosthodontics section of our Restorative II class. We started this class in January with the other spring semester classes. Last week when we had finals we did have a test in this class but it was just a midterm. The requirements for the prosthodontic [...]

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