General Dentistry Articles

• Flexible Phosphor Sensors: A Digital Supplement or Option to Rigid Sensors

  Howard S. Glazer, DDS, FAGD
  Compendium - July/Aug 2014

  Flexible phosphor sensors are less expensive to replace, deliver a larger image area, and can be used with patients averse to direct sensors, making them a viable supplement or option.

• Clinical Effectiveness of Flash Teeth Whitening, a Novel Method for Teeth Bleaching

  Amanda Arndt, DDS, Edward A. McLaren, DDS, MDC, MDS, Gwen Ulman, PhD
  Compendium - June 2014

• Research Update: Prevention

  Compendium - April 2014

  Compendium has compiled Abstracts from key recently published articles in the dental literature on preventive dentistry.

• Knowledge, Systems, Teamwork Keys to Proper Treatment Decisions

  Michael R. Sesemann, DDS, Brian L. Wilk, DMD, Frederic J. Norkin, DMD
  Compendium - April 2014

  Three Key Opinion Leaders discuss what steps clinicians can take to best assure predictable treatment outcomes.

• Impression-Taking: Conventional Methods Remain Steadfast as Digital Technology Progresses

  Gerard Kugel, DMD, MS, PhD
  Compendium - March 2014

• Bone Vs. Bite: Correcting a Dental Cross-Bite Using a Kois Deprogrammer

  Tracy Tambosso, DMD
  Compendium - March 2014

• Chairside CAD/CAM Technology: A Positive “Disruption” in Dentistry

  Walter G. Renne, DMD
  Compendium - February 2014

• Dentin Hypersensitivity: Differential Diagnosis, Tests, and Etiology

  Richard Trushkowsky, DDS, Franklin Garcia-Godoy, DDS, MS, PhD, PhD
  Compendium - February 2014

  This review of dentin hypersensitivity expounds on how this painful condition is characterized and describes the diagnosis and clinical management of it.

• Dental Headache Care and Assessing and Treating Dental Force–Related Problems

  Charles W. Martin, DDS
  Compendium - February 2014

• Using Fiber-Optic Transillumination as a Diagnostic Aid in Dental Practice

  Howard E. Strassler, DDS, Mark L. Pitel, DMD
  Compendium - February 2014

• Equipping the Operatory for Maximum Efficiency

  Aaron Tinkle, DMD
  Compendium - January 2014

• Evidence-Based Dentistry As It Relates to Dental Materials

  Stephen C. Bayne, MS, PhD, Mark Fitzgerald, DDS, MS
  Compendium - January 2014

  This review of evidence-based dentistry (EBD) underscores the limitations for evidence-based dental materials information that presently exists, identifying various stages of operation in EBD used to ...

• Digital Dentistry: A New Era of Patient Care

  Lee Culp, CDT
  Compendium - Nov/Dec 2013

• Research Update: Infection Control

  Compendium - Nov/Dec 2013

• The Photoshop Smile Design Technique (Part 1): Digital Dental Photography

  Edward A. McLaren, DDS, MDC, MDS, David A. Garber, DDS, BDS, Johan Figueira, DDS
  Compendium - Nov/Dec 2013