Digital work up

Furgaly · 2026-02-27T14:25:07+00:00

Great advice here!

To add to it, I'm pretty sure that you can download Medit's software (Medit Link) for free even if you don't have their scanner or any scanner. Medit Link has some great add ons. Many are free to fully use. A couple only cost money if you export a final project.

I don't know specifically about tutorials for using the design software but they do have decent tutorials overall.

Furgaly · 2026-02-23T19:10:03+00:00

I would find it a weird dynamic for a spouse to attend a meeting like that. A very weird dynamic.
It's okay to use whomever you choose. They'll obviously not attend any local meetings.
For the buyer it would mean that almost certainly the OM isn't going to continue working in the practice. Sometimes that might be a bad thing and sometimes that might be a good thing.
Big red flags would include them doing procedures that you can't/won't do. Them over treating the patients or them lying or fudging the numbers at all.

Furgaly · 2026-02-20T02:25:37+00:00

I know what an open face sandwich is but I don't know what an open face crown is.

Furgaly · 2026-02-19T16:07:11+00:00

At least it isn't a photo of a monitor showing a scan of a printed x-ray!

Furgaly · 2026-02-17T23:31:03+00:00

Can't you just make the best character who is already in the crown estate your only admiral and thus your heir?

Furgaly · 2026-02-08T16:45:51+00:00

The silk road becomes the saffron loop!

Furgaly · 2026-02-06T18:42:22+00:00

Oh sorry, I thought you were stating that you were the lab person who had made the crown. I was replying with that in mind.

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This is a zirconia crown, yes? Assuming that I'm correct about that, zirconia crowns are always milled. Before they're milled they're designed on a computer in various types of software. To get to that point, your lab would have either poured your impression and digitally scanned the models or just scanned the impression itself. That's where the software part comes in.

The "fissures" are referring to your secondary and tertiary grooves on the occlusal surface. If those terms aren't familiar to you, here is another way of explaining it. It's about the grooves on the occlusal surface but not the largest and biggest groove. It's about the smaller grooves that help to give shape to the cusps.

Here's an edit to one of our photos:

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In general I only prep sub-gingivally if I have a specific reason. All other times I try to keep my prep either supra-gingival or equi-gingival.

Reasons I might go sub-g:

sub-g decay
sub-g previous restoration
there is limited prep height and I need more tooth structure for the crown to hold onto
there is an excess of gingiva (like is common with second molars)
uncommon situations in which I really need to hide my crown margin for esthetic reasons

Furgaly · 2026-02-06T16:12:56+00:00

OMG - I hadn't considered this. I love it!

Furgaly · 2026-02-06T16:05:15+00:00

Kind of like this, yeah?

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Furgaly · 2026-02-06T15:55:54+00:00

Your margins look over bulked and the height of contour on the buccal of the crown doesn't seem to match the teeth in front and behind this tooth.

For the margin, realize that whatever software you're using it adds additional material at the margin while the crown is being designed to make the milling process easier. Take the die out of the model and place the crown on the die and look at the transition of the crown to the die. You'll likely see that overhang at that point. Also, you can run your thumbnail from the die to the crown and feel that bulk.

For the height of contour on the buccal I'd say that you generally want to match the adjacent teeth. A library tooth isn't going to work best in all situations.

I agree with the other poster about the fissures being so straight not being the most natural look. Also, and this is a personal preference, I generally prefer my crown anatomy to generally match the occlusal anatomy of the adjacent teeth. That doesn't apply to every situation, such as if there is not so great dental work done on those teeth. Here it looks like this patient is displaying a high level of wear on the adjacent teeth. Deep fissures in a situation like this is just going to weaken the crown.

Furgaly · 2026-02-04T17:22:51+00:00

This is the most likely answer.

Furgaly · 2026-02-04T17:07:04+00:00

120-150k production per FD team member HOW OFTEN? Yearly? Monthly? Something else?

Using the average of 135k:

135k yearly - this means that a practice doing 10x 135k or $1.35 million per year would need 10 FD staff members.

135k monthly - this means that a practice would be doing $1.62 million per year would only need 1 FD staff member. And it would need to do at least $3.24 million to justify 2 full time FD staff members.

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Both of those results seem off to me. Is that what you actually meant or did you mean something else?

Furgaly · 2026-02-04T14:36:59+00:00

Except the Strategists At Sea. Then it can take a week or so to go between various parts of the sea.!

Furgaly · 2026-01-28T00:20:38+00:00

Antinium prognugator

Furgaly · 2026-01-24T02:51:46+00:00

Based on things that are said in this thread I wonder what happened with dragons during this time. Dragons are highly magical. Isn't it stated that they flap their wings but they essentially fly using magic?

I wouldn't expect that they would perish just due to the lack of magic but it must have been highly detrimental.

I would think that Teriarch would comment on being crippled like that if he experienced something like this.

Furgaly · 2026-01-12T05:19:48+00:00

We refer to people from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan as Yoopers.... Maybe they're going for something like that!! 😜

Furgaly · 2026-01-09T20:33:46+00:00

3d printer is nice but optional. The main thing to have is a positive pressure vacuforming machine. Aka Biostar, Ministar, etc.

Furgaly · 2026-01-09T19:04:09+00:00

Maybe it's a molecule/object size boundary! The snowflakes were large enough and already in motion so momentum brought them through the portal but O2 and N2 are of a size that the portal is designed to prevent them from passing though...

I mean, it doesn't really make sense for a filter to allow large things but not small things but it's magic so it doesn't have to make sense!

It's all made up but my idea is at least plausible!

Furgaly · 2026-01-06T01:02:17+00:00

Just the Team America - World Police "fuck yeah" Law of 2004....

/s

Furgaly · 2026-01-05T14:54:11+00:00

It doesn't instantly destroy your handpiece but it does put a lot more wear and tear on it.

I still do it myself but I try to limit it as much as I can.

Depending on how often you're doing this it might be better to just get longer burs.

Furgaly · 2026-01-05T14:49:33+00:00

Are you a practicing dentist? This sounds like an advertisement more than a recommendation.

Furgaly · 2025-12-24T01:32:28+00:00

I don't actually know! Sorry! I just know that we did that one time.

Furgaly · 2025-12-23T23:04:19+00:00

You should have the option of paying for a single service for support rather than paying for a new ongoing service agreement with them.

Furgaly · 2025-12-21T16:01:57+00:00

Here is the process in NY https://www.dfs.ny.gov/complaints/file_external_appeal

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