Sorry, this is only simple "drill & fill", not implant related

Charles Lo Giudice

7 years ago

This patient dreads dental visits and wanted everything done in one visit.  I usually do the endo and the crown in separate appointments in case the tooth needs to settle down after the endo.  I followed our cdocs protocol of preparing, imaging, and designing the crown first.  The crown was milled and finished while the endo was being done.  I really like this workflow because it is easy to see exactly where the pulp chamber is, minimize the size of the access cavity, and instrument the canals.  Measurements are much easier also.  This tooth is an RPD abutment so the design was Biocopy.  Upon completion of the endo, the crown was bonded in place and the RPD went to place perfectly--as I knew it would.  A VERY HAPPY NOTE TO REPORT:  I am using 4.5 and I decided to try to copy the Biocopy folder to the Working Jaw folder, cut out the tooth to be crowned, and image the tooth to be crowned after the preparation was complete.  I was prepared to trash the Working Jaw folder and reimage it, but this time the cut and reimage technique worked.  Go figure.