Dental Tribune United Kingdom Edition

9Event ReviewJuly 2014United Kingdom Edition For more than 20 years, Luxatemp has been setting new benchmarks as the ultimate material for perfectly fitting and aesthetic provisionals. DMG has continuously expanded its range of products for temporaries – with bespoke variants to meet all the everyday requirements of the practice. Whether Luxatemp-Plus, the reliable tried-and-trusted classic, Luxatemp-Fluorescence, for superior natural aesthetics, or Luxatemp Star, the high-tech material with new record values in flexural strength and fracture resistance – each member of the Luxatemp family offers the quality and unique clinical results for which Luxatemp has been known worldwide for years. www.dmg-dental.com Everyone has a favourite. Luxatemp. Awards for Luxatemp Star. Luxatemp Star is sold in the USA under the name Luxatemp Ultra. *Market share USA 2012 according to the dental research company Strategic Data Marketing. The No. 1 for temporary crowns & bridges* AZ_Lx3_DeEn+GB_2014-01.indd 1 10.01.14 11:08 Contact info Luxatemp is distributed in the UK and Ireland by DMG Dental Products (UK) Ltd. For further information contact your local dealer or DMG Dental Products (UK) Ltd on 01656 789401, fax 01656 360100, email info@dmg-dental.co.uk or visit www.dmg-dental.com 100 per cent happy with the pro- posed design and resultant ap- pearance before he proceeds to do any tooth reduction etc. When it comes to final deci- sion making it is important to consider who will be involved, what treatment will be per- formed and by whom. However, it is very difficult to get all the interested parties together at the same time. Consequently GG uses different tools in order to facilitate this. These tools include Keynote, Dropbox and Skype so that video conferenc- ing can be conducted between all the concerned parties at a mutually convenient time, wherever they happen to be located in the world at any spe- cific time or day. Incidentally, Skype can be downloaded free of charge and the video confer- encing facilities are also free. GG also uses offline treat- ment planning sessions to cre- ate presentations which can be downloaded by the other parties at any time convenient to them. They can be sent via dropboxes to whoever needs them. Actual treatment The Dentist needs to transfer the aesthetic occlusal plane to an articulator. Previously this was only possible via a facebow, which was prone to errors due to the position of the ears etc. Now GG uses a digital face- bow transfer concept, which is very simple and very accurate. For the procedure, take a simple full-face photograph. Then zoom in and take an in- traoral close-up with lip retrac- tion. Alter the opacity of the picture and drag it over the full face image. At this stage it won’t be to the correct scale, but you can resize and rotate it to get the correct orientation etc. You can then zoom out and send this im- age to the laboratory. The Guided Diagnostic Aes- thetic Wax-up is the most im- portant and critical step. To create his Aesthetic Pre-Evalua- tion Temporaries GG uses Lux- atemp, which he has used for many years. He then prepares the teeth through the APT. For the final restorations he uses Emax all-ceramic restora- tions with a ceramic build-up incisally. He does a try-in using the try-in pastes. At this stage he doesn’t let the patient have a mirror to look at the results, be- cause they simply start pulling silly and unnatural faces and this totally destroys the impact of seeing the new restorations for the first time. Instead he takes digital images and then discusses these with the patient showing them the new teeth in natural expressions. These pic- tures are taken against a flat white background, so there are no visual distractions, and then sent to a large screen LED tel- evision for the patient to see. If the patient is 100 per cent happy then they go ahead and bond the restorations, normally two- by-two i.e. two centrals, lateral and canine, other lateral and canine etc. Finally he shows the patient before and after pictures so that they can see the changes he has created. Patients cannot neces- sarily recall the original appear- ance after the new smile design has been created. Finally GG described a very complex case which had been performed in one working day with the patient in Istanbul and the Technician in Brazil. This had involved all the conventional stages described previously with the working models etc produced by 3D printers in Brazil and Istanbul. DT

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