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This Month’s Features
The Small Canal Behind Big Endodontic Failures
Mastering the diagnosis and management of hidden anatomy requires the right combination of three-dimensional imaging, enhanced visualization, and minimally invasive techniques.
How CAD/CAM Is Redefining Restorative Dentistry
Digital scanning, advanced materials, 3D printing, and artificial intelligence enable CAD/CAM to provide efficient, same-day restorative care.
Guest Editorial
Envision the Future of Dental Education
As dental education struggles to keep pace with immense technological and clinical changes, the biodesign innovation process offers a needs-driven framework to empower students as forward-thinking innovators.
Continuing Education
The Science Behind Universal Composites
Today’s universal composites may all promise excellent esthetics and strength, but understanding how filler technology, resin chemistry, and photoinitiator systems differ can help clinicians make more informed restorative decisions.
Print the Bone Before You Place the Implant
Customized scaffolds are transforming guided bone regeneration by delivering precontoured, fixation-ready solutions that improve predictability in complex ridge defects.
The Antibiotic Myth in Joint Replacement
Despite decades of routine premedication for patients with hip and knee implants, current evidence shows no meaningful reduction in periprosthetic joint infection risk for most dental procedures.
Medical Miracle or Dental Pariah?
As Suboxone becomes a cornerstone of opioid recovery, oral health professionals are increasingly confronting its complex effects on enamel erosion, xerostomia, pain management, and post-operative care.
Departments
Editor’s Note
Words matter, and a recent Wall Street Journal article made it very clear that the language of healthcare providers, is indeed, important.1 In “Why Aren’t Doctors Better With Words?” the author Jim Sollisch gives an example of a 36-year-old woman who was told by her gynecologist that she had a “geriatric pregnancy,” much to the [...]
At a Glance
Why Your Next Patient Isn’t Asking Friends Anymore
The way patients find dentists has changed forever. Referrals once drove nearly all growth. In other words, a happy patient told a friend, who told a neighbor, and so on. But in 2026, that chain has gone digital. Patients don’t ask friends for recommendations first anymore, they ask Google, ChatGPT, or Siri. Artificial intelligence (AI) [...]
Products and Services
Optimal Esthetics for Implant Screw Holes
A universal shade composite layered over an opaque blocker offers a fast, predictable way to mask dark implant components.
Office Managers Are the Heartbeat of the Practice
Office Manager Appreciation Month offers dental teams an opportunity to recognize the people who keep practices moving.
Beautiful Anterior Composites in Minutes
Bisco’s Quantum Universal Composite System combines strength, polishability, and simplified layering to produce lifelike esthetics with remarkable efficiency.
Rethinking Ultrasonic Instrumentation for Personalized Periodontal Care
Selecting the right ultrasonic insert and refining instrumentation techniques help clinicians deliver more personalized, efficient, and patient-centered periodontal therapy.
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