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Category: Equilibration
Occlusal Equilibration- Does it work?
Following proper diagnosis and treatment planning, occlusal equilibration can provide selected patients with the most conservative, predictable, and safest treatment possible. Occlusal equilibration can often help avoid the need for more complex treatments. Unfortunately, a rift among dental educators, coupled with confusion in the literature over its safety and effectiveness, leaves many dental professionals questioning […]
How to recognize if your patient should be equilibrated
In the practice of complete dentistry the dentist is committed to an examination, diagnosis, and treatment planning process and has developed the skill of recognizing the signs of instability in a patient’s masticatory system. It is our responsibility to offer the patient the most conservative treatment method to achieve the desired end result- a stable, […]
Dentists: When You Should Use Anterior Deprogramming Appliance & Why
Lucia jigs, NTI’s, Cranham deprogrammers, and Dawson B-Splints all fall into the broad category of temporomandibular joint disorder diagnosis appliances. There are specific reasons as to why you may want to use one type over another when diagnosing a possible TMJ problem, but at their core they all achieve the same goal, getting centric relation […]
How to Utilize a Dental Assistant to Equilibrate the Dentition
Equilibration or reshaping of teeth is one of the procedures taught at the Dawson Academy. The equilibration process begins with step 7 in the 10 Step 3D Treatment planning Checklist (Provide Equal Intensity Stops). The goal of equilibration is to reshape both posterior and anterior teeth until equal intensity contacts are achieved in centric relation. […]
Dental Webinar: How to Effectively Equilibrate the Natural Dentition
Following proper diagnosis and treatment planning, occlusal equilibration can provide selected patients with the most conservative, predictable and safest treatment possible.http://dental.thedawsonacademy.com/bid/114241/How-to-recognize-if-your-patient-should-be-equilibrated Occlusal equilibration can often help avoid the need for more complex treatments. Dentists who have developed proficiency in equilibration universally agree it is one of the most practical skills they use routinely in practice.
The Necessity of a Facebow Mounted Cast for Routine Single Crowns
Situation: Let’s assume that we are looking at a patient that has already been equilibrated. The patient is nonsymptomatic and my assumption is that we have gone ahead and verified that the occlusion is stable. Now you have a single crown to do.
Dentists: How to Effectively Equilibrate the Natural Dentition
Following proper diagnosis and treatment planning, occlusal equilibration can provide selected patients with the most conservative, predictable and safest treatment possible. Occlusal equilibration can often help avoid the need for more complex treatments. Dentists who have developed proficiency in equilibration universally agree it is one of the most practical skills they use routinely in practice.
Quick Tip: Using the T-Scan for Equilibrations
Some of you already have the T-Scan in your practice from Tekscan. It’s a computerized bite sensor that you can use in initial exams to show patients some of their malocclusion. And one of my favorite uses in our practice is to use it as part of our equilibration.
Dentists: What is fremitus and why is it important?
Fremitus is the perceived vibration of a tooth when it comes into contact with another tooth. This is very important for a number of reasons. It is something we should look at in our new patient examinations and is something that we have to check and make sure that is not present when we are […]
How to Finalize an Occlusal Equilibration
Equilibration is one of the most fun and valuable procedures I can do in my office for my patients. I tell my staff all the time that if you want to have me as happy as I can be, fill the day with equilibrations. But finalizing an equilibration is also very crucial. It can take […]
What is Occlusal Equilibration?
Occlusal equilibration is balancing up the bite to where the jaw joint is seated properly. Start with a healthy joint, make sure that it’s seated properly, in Centric Relation. Then we want all the teeth to come together with equal pressure, and then when the jaw moves at all, just the front teeth touch.
