Market 30 June 2020
Author: Luigi Campopiano
Often in times of crisis, either real or imagined we are encouraged to act. If your house is on fire or if you witness a car accident you must do something and...
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 29 June 2020
Dental Practice in the era of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: a checklist to enhance safety and good practice
Authors: F. Graziani, R. Izzetti, L. Lardani, M.L. Biancarini, M. Gabriele
The rapid and sudden outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic brought us to reconsider many of the solid certainties that we have been accustomed as health care...
Oral surgery 22 June 2020
Sinus elevation surgery has become a sought -after part of implant dentistry and procedures have evolved over the last 25 years to a point where sinus grafting...
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 17 June 2020
How to put and remove Personal Protective Equipment to avoid Coronavirus infection
Authors: S. Chirico, L. Breschi
After months of emergency caused by the Coronavirus epidemic, we find ourselves living a completely different reality from what we were used to and having to ...
Digital Dentistry 17 June 2020
Co-authors: A. Comba, F. Del Bianco
In recent years the use of chairside CAD/CAM ceramics restorations has rapidly increased. The choice of materials includes zirconia-reinforced lithium silicate...
Market 17 June 2020
Author: Luigi Campopiano
“Never invest in anything that you cannot draw with a pencil”: who had this vision. Here he is: 76 years’ old, born in 1944, with a list of 21...
Restorative dentistry 17 June 2020
Survival rate of Deep margin elevation for indirect partial restorations
Indirect partial restorations are a good option in case of medium and large sized cavities in posterior teeth, because they can guarantee not only aesthetics, but above all protection to the portion...
Apical periodontitis is a local inflammatory response due to the presence of microorganisms within an infected root canal system . A systematic review by Ng et al. (2008) reported that four...
Orthodontics 17 June 2020
Enamel demineralization during orthodontic treatment: clear aligners vs fixed appliance therapy.
In the latest issue (May 2020) of the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics a randomized clinical trial was published evaluating the...
The scientific journal Clinical Trials in Dentistry (CTD), edited by Edra, has a site entirely reserved for it: http://www.clinicaltrialsindentistry.com . In English and with a...
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 12 June 2020
The inflammatory relationship between food and health: how to control it
Author: Dr. Attilio Speciani
Your patient is ready for a critical dental procedure, but a last look at the mouth shows inflamed gums and spots of mucositis, conditions not favorable to placing an implant in the best way. Yes,...
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 10 June 2020
Which masks do we have to use to prevent the risk of Coronavirus infection?
In these times, during Coronavirus emergency, there is a lot of talk about masks and what would be the safest for dentists. First of all, between surgical...
Endodontics 10 June 2020
Is there a different response to pulp sensibility test between healthy and diabetic patients?
Diabetes mellitus is a chronic inherited or acquired disorder caused by low production or ineffectiveness of insulin produced by the pancreas glands. Diabetes mellitus not only induces dental pulp...
Digital Dentistry 10 June 2020
Emergency profile in esthetic implant dentistry: is digital workflow suitable?
One of the challenges in esthetic implant supported restorations is to replicate the emergence profile of soft tissue contours created by provisional restorations. Various analog techniques have been...
Aggressive periodontitis (AgP) is a periodontal disease characterized by loss of periodontal tissue, early onset and a relatively rapid progression in the ...
Oral surgery 03 June 2020
Sinus floor elevation: intraoperative complications with two ultrasonic tecniques
Tooth loss results in bone remodeling and reduction in horizontal and vertical dimensions of the alveolar ridge. In the posterior upper jaw a sinus...
Prosthodontics 03 June 2020
In the era of adhesive dentistry, glass-ceramics, including feldspathic-reinforced, leucite-reinforced, and lithium disilicate reinforced materials, are...
Article from Maxillaris
Dentistry in China is the most private sector-oriented medical specialty and privately run clinics abound as in Spain. Forced closures have brought unexpected...
Market 20 May 2020
Author: Luigi Compopiano
Pandemic. Lockdown. Crisis. Drawdown. Downgrading. The path of a market after a shock, whether provoked by endogenous or exogenous factors, tends to trace the ...
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 20 May 2020
Spanish guideline for avoiding COVID-19 transmission in dental practices
Author: Lorena Origo
In the current situation of COVID-19 emergency, all nations support the need to limit dental clinical activity exclusively to emergency care. In parallel, it is necessary to prepare for the following...