This case is  by Russell Blanchard and used the great skill of Robin Snell at Pyramid Dental Laboratory to make the fibre reinforced bridge. The front tooth that needed replacing was loose and had drifted out of line. It had also become acutely infected. There was no chance of saving it and it needed removal. Clearly the patient did not want to have a gap at the front of her smile so Russell … [Read more...]

I have been doing way too much talking on this site recently and have not been putting up any pretty pictures. So to amend this I thought I would show you a simple treatment from this afternoon -a direct white filling to restore a broken tooth. The case shown here was completed in 1 visit (of approximately 45 minutes clinical time) and did not require local anaesthetic or significant adjustment to … [Read more...]

Every dentist who is lucky enough to stay in the same practice for many years will be able to see their successful cases come back year after year and will enjoy the great sense of satisfaction and continuity that this gives us. It will also give us the opportunity to see our failures and how we respond to this opportunity probably shapes us more as people and clinicians than any other aspect. It … [Read more...]