2026
// Prosthetics
Laminate Veneers: A Practical Guide
Veneers kept within enamel reached 99% survival over up to 12 years; into dentine, failure risk rose about tenfold. Composite or ceramic, and who suits each.
HK
Dr Hakan Kaval
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// Prosthetics
Zirconia or Emax: Which Is Right for You?
Monolithic Emax crowns showed 98.5% five-year survival, zirconia 96.8%. Why Emax often suits front teeth, and zirconia molars, bridges and darker teeth.
HK
Dr Hakan Kaval7 min
// Aesthetic
How Are Celebrity Teeth Done: The Treatment Chain
Celebrity smiles come from a planned treatment sequence, not one product: smile design, orthodontics where needed, then whitening, bonding, veneers or crowns.
HK
Dr Hakan Kaval8 min
// Root Canal
Pain After Root Canal Treatment: What Is Normal?
Some tenderness after root canal treatment is expected, especially when chewing. The important question is whether the pain is improving. Learn what to expect during the first week, which symptoms may indicate a flare-up, when to contact the dentists at Mosdent, and how treatment costs can vary for international patients.
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Dr Anıl Çetin, PhD8 min
// Root Canal
Smoking After Root Canal Treatment: What Patients Need to Know
Smoking after a root canal is not governed by the same rules as smoking after a tooth extraction. There is no blood clot in the treated tooth socket to protect, but smoking may affect healing around the root tip over the following months. Learn when smoking is most concerning, what the evidence shows, and how to protect your treatment result.
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Dr Anıl Çetin, PhD6 min
// Root Canal
Root Canal or Implant: Which Is Right?
Root canal treatment and dental implants are not competing treatments: one preserves an existing tooth, the other replaces a tooth that cannot be saved.
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Dr Anıl Çetin, PhD7 min
// Root Canal
Failed Root Canal: Retreatment and Microscopy
A failed root canal is not an automatic extraction. Retreatment has a 76.7% pooled healing rate; microsurgery is next, extraction only for unrestorable teeth.
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Dr Anıl Çetin, PhD8 min
// Restorative
Dental Bonding: What It Can Fix
Composite bonding can repair small chips, close minor gaps and improve tooth shape; composite laminates showed 88% survival over 24 to 97 months.
Bİ
Dr İsmail Batuhan İp7 min
// Restorative
After a Dental Filling: Smoking, Eating and Pain
A review of 16 randomised trials found no difference in postoperative sensitivity between layered and bulk-fill composite. Eat once the numbness wears off; the bigger variable is smoking and what it does to colour.
Bİ
Dr İsmail Batuhan İp7 min