Very Clinical: Boards Stories and Other Nightmares
This throwback episodes features Dr. Mac Jones talking about board exams and a useful variety of clinical tips that the guys wish they had known when they were young.
- The Very Clinical guys talk about board horror stories
- Mac weighs in on getting contacts with Bulk EZ
- Make sure you're reducing enough on crown and bridge preps
- How do prep for retention
- How to grab crown prep length
- Plunger cusps...reduce them
- Learn how to recontour teeth
- READ THE DIRECTIONS of your materials
- Understand your bonding agents
- Simple isn't always the best
- Access extracted teeth, understand endo access anatomy
- Use an orifice opener
- Reduce the occlusal in endo if you can
- Section teeth in extractions...take out roots, not teeth
- Proximators
- Proximators + mallet
- Look in to bone grafting even if you aren't placing implants
- Instagram results...often "same day." Recalls are everything.
- Don't be the first person to do something. Don't be the last person, either.
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