It was one of those days, where I was already running behind. Suddenly a new patient is added to my schedule and it says "second opinion for a crown versus a filling". I am already not looking forward to this. Then my assistant tells me after seating the patient and taking an x-ray that the prior dentist wanted a "fortune" to fix his tooth. In this situation Read More
Eric Jones DMD
Planning For The Year Ahead
One of my favorite things to do this time of year is to plan and lay out my year ahead. My life is dictated by the school calendar as the father of 4. I still like to do this in an analog fashion with a planner, pen, and multiple colors of highlighters. I include personal time, and school holidays, but also planning for my minimum number of dental production Read More
Wire Bonded Implant Temporary
Temporizing anterior sites during dental implant placement and integration can be challenging for both the patient and for us. The choices all have some positive and negative features. In this video I will look at a technique I use for a wire-retained bonded Maryland type temporary bridge, and how I convert it then to the screw retained implant temporary Read More
Implant Improv
Friday during the really bad weather when Hurricane Irma came through the Atlanta area I got a call from a patient who is in an immediate denture while implants were healing. She had dropped her denture and broken it. I decided to try and convert her broken denture to use her implants as we were six months out, but needed to improvise as there was no way to Read More