Composite vs Ceramic with Dr Chris Orr – PDP030

Yes, you have read the title correct. I DID get Chris Orr on the Podcast...the silver lining of lockdown?! I am very excited to share this episode with you - Composite vs Ceramic, Direct vs Indirect. I have placed hundreds of humongous composites in my career that in hindsight should have been indirect restorations - I share the challenges that I faced in my journey and I am sure many of you will be able to resonate with it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGWcwkZD-kk Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! We discuss: An extremely insightful episode with Dr Chris Orr (whom I refer to as 'the Rockstar Dentist' and I share the story WHY I give him this name) Is there a place for inlays? At what point does a composite become a ceramic (or read: direct becomes indirect) Is there a place for composite onlays? Does the parafunctional status of a patient influence the choice of restoration? Is eMax acceptable for 2nd molars? Dual cure cement vs light cure cement for onlays? How do you decide which cusps to cover? What kind of join is best to the tooth? Pressed eMax vs CAD/CAM eMax? What does Chris Orr think about BOPT/Vertipreps? As promised in the episode, if you are waiting for announcements of Advanced Dental Seminar courses by Dr Chris Orr - check out their ADS Facebook page Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: Bruxism has a lot in common with periodontal disease. Because we have to have these difficult conversations with our patients that you have this problem. I can't cure this problem for you. I'm happy to help you. But it's your problem... Jaz's Introduction: Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Protrusive Dental podcast. I have got an absolute Rockstar and I use that term purposefully because I've got a story associated with Chris Orr. Dr Chris Orr who's coming on the show, say to discuss about a mammoth topic, which is basically composites versus ceramic, which is best and how do you choose? So the story with Chris Orr is when I was a student, when I was about a fourth year student, we'd have these dentists who were several years qualified, come in, and they will be learning how to place implants. And we'd be like on these clinics just floating around as students do doing nothing much. So anyway, I got talking to another dentist, and he was giving me some advice as me being a fourth year dental student, he wanted to give me some advice, just thought was very kind. And basically, he was basically blowing off some steam. He was having a rant about the state of dentistry in the UK, he wasn't a very happy dentist in terms of how dentistry was in the UK. And he kept saying, look, if you really want to be a great dentist, if you really want to be an amazing dentist, you have to go transatlantic, you have to go to the USA and do some training there or get to a American Dental do a postgraduate degree or do some courses in USA, and basically move to USA is essentially what he was saying to me. But then he said, however, there is one dentist in the UK that I think is amazing. He said, Have you heard of Chris Orr? At the time I hadn't heard of Chris Orr, and he said to me, Chris Orr is a rockstar dentist. And that has never, I've never forgotten that, that has never left me. So whenever I see the name Chris Orr I always think Rockstar dentist basically. So obviously, that dentist, I think I see where he was coming from. But I think nowadays, with the UK also producing such we already have lots of great dentists. And I think that perception that USA has better dentist and UK, I don't think it's 100% true at all. Whether the training is better may be a different story, but definitely the color of dentistry in the UK, something I'm proud of. And we have some huge names and one of them is Chris Orr so it'd be great to chat to Chris Orr today. The Protrusive Dental pearl I have for you is I'm going to show you ho...