Clinical experience, misunderstood concepts and frequently asked questions. Notes from many years of practice.
277 articles
What a zirconia crown is made of, how the grades differ, what the five-year survival data actually reports, how much tooth it costs you, and how to read a quote that says "porcelain". Cited to PubMed.
Emax is a material, lithium disilicate glass-ceramic. A veneer is a technique. Here is the difference, measured in millimetres of tooth removed and in published ten-year survival data.
What composite bonding and composite veneers actually are, what the published survival data reports, how composite compares with porcelain in a head-to-head trial, why it can be repaired in the chair, and the maintenance question nobody answers for patients who fly home. Cited to PubMed.
PFM stands for porcelain fused to metal. What is actually inside the crown, what four different restorations the word "porcelain" can hide on a quote, what the survival data reports across twenty years, and where the black line at the gum comes from. Cited to PubMed.
What your temporary crown is actually doing, how long the published data says it lasts, why it does not look like your final crown, and what to do if it comes off while you are a long way from the clinic that fitted it.
Where Straumann implants are made, who owns the group, what the body and surface are, what the published survival data actually reports, what the cost is built from, and how warranty and traceability work once you fly home.
An objective spec sheet for a South Korean implant system: who owns it, how it is made, what the published survival figures actually say, what drives the cost in Turkey and what the warranty really covers.
A specification page for a Brazilian implant system wholly owned by the Straumann Group: what the Grand Morse platform actually measures and does, what the published survival data covers and does not cover, what the warranty is worth to you rather than to your dentist, and what drives the cost of treatment in Turkey.
A sourced spec sheet for a German implant system that almost nobody writes about in English: who makes it, what the TissueCare connection actually does, what forty years of published cohorts report, what drives the cost of treatment in Turkey, and how components are serviced once you fly home.
