Hello World!


This is my first blog post on my website GodboutDentistry.ca, to be honest, this is my first blog post ever. I will keep it short to start because I don't actually have a lot of content at the moment. Why am I starting this blog? Well, what I'm looking for is my own little corner of the internet where I can come and write my thoughts on a range of topics that mainly focus on dentistry: both the science of dentistry, and the art. A place to show my work and (hopefully) learn a few things in the process. I am also hoping that writing gives me the drive to start to document cases more fully, help me critically assess my work, and improve my dentistry along the way. Finally, someday I want to teach and I feel this space will allow me to collect my thoughts and start to compile content that can serve as the foundation of my teaching portfolio.



Chris



PS The photo associated with this post is of a #11 E.Max stacked veneer that I did the other day to replace an old stained composite veneer that was starting to leak at the margins. There are several areas where I thought that I could have improved on the result. The first obvious one is that it is over characterized. The patient did have white opaque striations characterizing her teeth but the end result was a little too much to match the adjacent teeth. The next thing that I could have improved on, was the depth of the preparation margin. My goal was to leave it ~0.5mm subgingival on the buccal aspect but after delivery it was clear that on the mesiobuccal aspect it was essentially equigingival. Had I placed the margin more subgingival, I may have been able to add a little bulk to the emergence profile. This may have helped reposition the gingival margin ever so slightly more apically which would have given more balance to the gingival contours. The last thing that I will mention is that I wanted to try a pressed E.Max or feldspathic chip veneer on the mesial of the #21 (like they did in this article). This would balance the M-D width of the central incisors without compromising the #21. In the end the lab that I was using said that they do not make that style of veneer and since the patient was not concerned with the width discrepancy, we proceeded with a single veneer and the patient was happy with the end result.