If you find that you need to move a patient’s tooth labially, your first thought might be to use a micro-screw.   Not your only option!

The Recurved Finger Spring is a great alternative to a micro-screw. It can be designed to help push a tooth forward so that it lines up evenly with the rest of the teeth – and can also be fabricated to correct minor rotations.

You can easily activate the springs. Just use a pair of 139 Bird-Beak pliers to pull forward on the spring’s arm.  If the tooth in question is decidedly vertical, you’ll want to leave the acrylic over the top of the finger spring. If the lingual incline of the tooth is shallow, then you can place the composite ledge on the tooth’s lingual.

As a periodontist, you are on the forefront of fighting gum disease. Since gum disease is the leading cause of tooth loss, you more than any other type of dentist, fight to save your patients’ beautiful smiles. In cases where saving teeth isn’t possible, you use your knowledge and skill to place implants so a patient can smile with confidence.

Part of building your new practice includes stocking up on the right supplies so you’ll always be ready no matter what patient walks through your door or what unforeseen complication arises. At Space Maintainers Laboratories, we want to be your periodontal appliance provider. Our worldwide network of dental laboratories means you can get the supplies you need quickly and reliably and at an affordable price.

Are you famous for misplacing your keys? Forgetting birthdays? Do you struggle to remember names or even the emails you read the day before? How are you sleeping these days? If you suspect that you have sleep apnea, it just might be stealing your memory!

Every single moment of your waking day, stimuli is pours into your mind. At night, your sleeping mind catalogues and consolidates these memories, essentially anchoring the more important ones in your mind so you can remember them in the morning.

If you have sleep apnea, you could be waking up hundreds of times a night and never entering into the important REM and slow-wave sleep cycles that are necessary for filtering and consolidating memories.

It can be difficult for dentists and orthodontists to perform dental procedures on young patients. Children already have a tendency to squirm or quickly grow restless, and that’s before you start putting anything into their mouths. The faster a dentist can complete a procedure, the less stress a young patient will endure, and the better the experience will be for all! If you need to place crowns in the mouth of a pediatric patient, consider our special pediatric strip crowns.

Specially made to be easily trimmed and filled with composite, they are also thin and offer superior anatomy strips.  No collars to cut or seams to split. Minimal chair time and maximum effectiveness! Parents will love these pediatric strip crowns...and their price as well.

At Space Maintainers Laboratories we offer pediatric strip crowns  

In your waking hours you do a lot to take care of your teeth. You brush twice a day, floss, and even swig some mouthwash from time to time. You also visit your friendly neighborhood dentist regularly. With all this healthy tooth investment, why are your teeth worn down, ragged looking, and painful when you wake up in the morning?

You might just be unknowingly destroying your teeth while you sleep. Nighttime teeth grinding (also known as bruxism) is more common than you might think, and it can lead to long-term damage -- wearing down your enamel, causing jaw pain and headaches, and even cracking your teeth!

Similar to a sports mouth guard, a sleep night guard fits over your teeth to protect against damaging force caused by clenching and grinding. If you suspect that you are grinding your teeth at night, visit your dentist to be fitted for a sleep night guard…or just to find out more.  

Features and Benefits:
 

  ►  Minimum Chair Time Required

  ►  Wire Placed in Correct Position

  ►  Simple & Effective

​  ►  Light-Cured with Composite

Patients lose, break or forget to use their retainers. Improve Final Retention outcome with EZ-Bond. Your patients will love it.

• Undetectable Appliance: Appliance is bonded individually to the lingual surface of each tooth.

    

When you think of children wearing crowns, chances are the image in your head is that of your daughter playing her favorite Disney princess or the gaggle of children that show up on your doorstep each Halloween. The other type of crown – the kind for your teeth – is something that you’ve probably reserved for viewing in the adult world.

Yet, in some rare cases, children do suffer from excessive tooth decay or even chip or break their molars (back teeth) as a result of a bad fall or accident. Although these teeth will eventually fall out naturally, your child still needs to use them in the meantime.

Teeth damaged in such a manner may require “Pedo Crowns. 

A missing tooth not only makes it more difficult for an individual to eat and speak, it can also cause embarrassment and affect self-esteem. This is why a bridge can be such an important tool for cosmetic dentists. Creating a bridge for a client can give them back a beautiful smile and help them eat and speak without pain or embarrassment.

Dentists have several choices when it comes to choosing material for a bridge, including metal-based bridges and all ceramic bridges. Another popular option is a zirconia bridge. This type of bridge is made from Zirconium oxide, a form of dental ceramic prized for its durability and toughness. Another big benefit of a zirconia bridge is that it is biocompatible, meaning the human body won’t reject it.   

How exciting is it to know that your talent as a restorative dentist can overcome the most critical social problem in America!

The world economy is trying to overcome the financial consequences of the post-outbreak of COVID-19, now global inflation rapidly escalated into a new worldwide economic crisis.

An apparent rise in anxiety, hand in hand with the growing pandemics of obstructive sleep apnea and malocclusion it’s one of the main drivers of insomnia and temporomandibular joint pain and disorders (TMJD) around the globe in America. Only 35 percent of Americans report sleeping ok, according to Gallup’s State of Sleep in America 2022 Report.

Do you want to know how a restorative dentist can not only provide a broad and beautiful smile, but also by collaborating with physicians and other allied medical professionals deliver the highest quality of care for patients suffering from insomnia, OSA, and TMJD who may not otherwise treat these conditions?  

Isn’t it strange how one sibling can have perfectly spaced teeth while the other sibling has crooked and crowded teeth? Why does this happen? Well, in some cases, a child’s mouth simply doesn’t grow big enough to accommodate all of their teeth. As a result, the teeth push together, overlap, and become crooked.

Braces can’t fix this problem, at least not right away. First, a dentist must actually make the child’s jaw bigger. A dentist does this by using a special device, known as a palatal expander or a Hyrax expander. The Hyrax expander comes with two arms that push gently and steadily on either side of the maxilla (the upper jaw). Each week, the dentist (or the patient if he/she is old enough) turns a screw to expand the arms just a little bit.