Protrusive Dental Podcast Shell Temporary Crowns with Basil Mizrahi – PDP122
Jul 23, 2022
53:34
Let's demystify what is often considered an 'advanced' Restorative technique: Shell crowns. My guest Dr. Basil Mizrahi is known for Comprehensive Dentistry and teaches Dentists the art of perfect provisionals- we go from A to Z of Shell Crown, how to reline them and cover all the nitty gritty details of this useful technique.
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Protrusive Dental Pearl: Preventing Bisacryl Temporary Crowns from cracking: Hollow out the inside of the temporary crown (just enough space for the cement) and therefore create the space for the temporary cement to flow and exit, preventing cracking of the temporary crown. Check out @Dental.Story IG page
"You should become familiar with acrylic before shell crowns" Dr. Basil Mizrahi
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Highlights of this episode:
Preventing Bisacryl Temporary Crowns from cracking 5:35Temporary Crowns 12:08What is a Shell Crown? 13:59Technician role in creating Shell Crowns 15:22Acrylic Shells vs Bis-acryl Temporaries 20:07'Relining' an Acrylic Temporary Shell 21:20Using Bisacryl instead of Acrylic inside a Shell 24:14Relining Acrylic Shell with Fresh Acrylic 25:00Use of Vaseline? 35:41'Fit Checker' for shell crowns 38:26Anterior vs Posterior relining 39:23Shell Crowns vs Lab Made Acrylic Crowns 40:19Shade decisions in relining the shells 42:47How to Remove shell crowns 44:08Polishing after relining 45:59Multiple Shells at increased OVD 46:49
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To learn more about it, check out Dr. Basil’s Courses and other wonderful stuff on his website!
If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to check out the Adhesive Full Mouth Rehabs in 11 Appointments (Part 1)
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Jaz's Introduction: Hello, Protruserati. I'm Jaz Gulati and welcome back to the Protrusive Dental Podcast. If you follow me on the socials, you'll have seen that I've been quite busy these last few weeks.
Jaz's Introduction:In fact, the whole of last week I was nonclinical because I took some time off for my brother-in-law's wedding. Now this is the same brother-in-law who you saw in that famous, has become pretty famous now, the IPR video I made. So, I did this whole experiment with using different types of IPR, burs and oscillating handpiece, disks, et cetera. And that got greatly received on YouTube and all the platforms as a helpful aid. Now, if you haven't seen that yet, just Google search for IPR Ultimate Review video. You'll find it. It's like number one on Google at the moment. And in that video, my guinea pig patient was my brother-in-law. And there we are. He got married. I was his dentist. I was proud. And also his wife, I whitened her teeth and they both had wonderful smiles.
And it made me really happy. But I was experiencing a different type of stress. Now, usually it's clinical stress. This was non-clinical stress. What I mean by that is this was life. The thing I was stressed about was having to do a performance on the wedding reception. And actually at that wedding reception, 700 people, in attendance and me and my wife were like hosting it and going around, make sure everyone had their seats, okay, food and drink.
So it was a really big affair in there. Lots of stress. But it went well. Performance went down really good. We streamed it live on Instagram actually, so you can follow @jazzygulati. That's my personal account. If you want to catch our little Bollywood dance. I'd also booked out a Spider-Man for the kids, so I kept Ishaan, my son busy.
So it's been a pretty eventful week and I kind of feel like I need a week off just to recover from the wedding. But hey, ho, life goes on and tomorrow I'm back to work clinically. And now it's 11:00 PM at night, my son is asleep and I'm able to record this intro to a phenome...