by Chris Gajewski | Nov 28, 2016 | Orthodontics
So you have or are looking at that fancy wand intraoral scanner. As practices move from just using it as a tool for Invisalign and difficult patients, and into digital dentistry and orthodontics, a very common conversation is taking place between doctors and lab...
by Chris Gajewski | Oct 10, 2016 | Orthodontics
A few doctors have mentioned to me that patients can agonize over picking a color or design for their retainers, usually while in the chair, wasting your valuable time and setting the schedule back. There is an easy fix for this: Have an appointment card printed that...
by Chris Gajewski | Sep 28, 2016 | Orthodontics
An oral surgeon from around the corner called my lab the other week with an emergency, wondering if we made flippers? A patient of his, who was about to graduate college, had an unfortunate encounter between a baseball bat and his front teeth and he needed to look...
by Chris Gajewski | Sep 15, 2016 | Orthodontics
An old adage in carpentry is measure once, cut twice; measure twice, cut once. This idea can be applied to guards and splints. Fitting a guard or a splint can be tricky, with a lot of grinding. But it does not have to be. I just had a doctor call complaining that the...
by Chris Gajewski | May 11, 2016 | Orthodontics
Sun and fun were plentiful. My enjoyment of said sun and fun were as limited as my sleep. I swear I walked as much in three days as I do during a month. The biggest news came from 3Shape’s Trios. It was announced that Invisalign would start accepting scans from Trios....
