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You work so hard to make a beautiful restoration. The patient is thrilled when they leave your office – but they’re still numb. Then they go home, the numbness wears off and the postoperative sensitivity hits. How can you avoid this?

What’s a great way to decrease your chair time and lower your overhead while still producing great aesthetic results? Switch to single shade dentistry!

If you’re a general practitioner, placing direct composites is something you do quite frequently. And yet, for a seemingly straight-forward procedure, things are not always so straight-forward.

In today’s social media-fueled world, simple snapshots that in the past would have only been seen by a handful of people can now be quickly shared far and wide. It’s no wonder your patients want to look their best! With aesthetic dentistry you can help your patients achieve the beautiful smiles that they want.

Wellness dentistry is becoming more of a thing in dentistry, and for good reason. If you’re looking for a way to elevate your patients’ health and build your practice in the process, wellness dentistry can get you there.

Cracked teeth are extremely common. A patient will bite down on something hard and a crack will propagate right down into the dentin or pulp – even if the tooth already has a composite in it. Wouldn’t it be great if you could prevent this?

Your patients might think that their temporaries are, by definition, only meant to be a temporary way to provide them with functionality. In reality the role of temporaries goes way beyond this, so it’s very important that you get them right.

One universal composite with just five shades that cover all 16 VITA shades plus all of those pesky “in between” shades. That’s what today’s adaptive shade matching technology can give you, to simplify your restorative dentistry.

Whether or not you’ve already discovered the benefits of warm composites and the difference they can make in your workflow, you’re going to want to read this. Using thermoviscous technology, VOCO has found a way to essentially give you two - a flowable composite and a sculptable composite - in one.

Tired of juggling and tracking multiple bottles of bonding agent, trying to avoid throwing out materials because they expire before you use them? The newer universal bonding agents let you streamline your bonding systems, reduce your inventory and save money - without sacrificing quality results.

Each year a host of new products are introduced that each claim to solve problems, streamline processes and provide excellent results for our patients. How can you know if a given product actually lives up to its claims?