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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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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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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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This is how I do it:
1. Place sticky wax all over the typodont tooth thet you will be waxing on, a nice thin layer.
2. Place your sticky waxed tooth into the typodont and get a visual of the mesial and distal contacts. In fact…if you want, heat your pkt get some wax on it and [...]

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Dental school started and we were thrown right into the preclinic on the second week. The preclinic is part of the restorative curriculum here at Temple Dental. I believe you take Restorative I-V during the four years at Temple. The first two years are done in a preclinic. This is to [...]

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