{"title":"Triple tray crown and bridge procedures: a guide to how dental assistants can assist the dentist: part 1.","authors":"John S Mamoun, Mariam Javaid","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The manual dual-arch (or triple tray) technique is an efficient way of making a definitive impression and making temporary provisional restorations for crown and bridge procedures. This article demonstrates how a dental assistant can assist a dentist during triple tray crown and bridge procedures. This is the first part of a two-part article, and explains mixing impression materials, making pre-operative dual-arch impressions, deciding in what situations to use separate arch impressions instead of the triple tray, and introduces the topic of making provisional restorations. In the future, in-office CAD-CAM scanning and milling of restorations, or digital scanning of tooth preparations, followed by e-mailing the scans to a dental laboratory, may reduce the frequency of use of the manual triple tray impression technique. However, its intrinsic efficiency may prevent it from becoming obsolete.</p>","PeriodicalId":79486,"journal":{"name":"Dental assistant (Chicago, Ill. : 1994)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31583798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Role of the dental assisant in addressing access to care.","authors":"Janet Tuthill","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79486,"journal":{"name":"Dental assistant (Chicago, Ill. : 1994)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31583346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Halitosis: you take my breath away.","authors":"Celeste C Okokon","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79486,"journal":{"name":"Dental assistant (Chicago, Ill. : 1994)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31583803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How do you work with someone you don't like?","authors":"Rhonda R Savage","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79486,"journal":{"name":"Dental assistant (Chicago, Ill. : 1994)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31445321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dental assistants and the care of individuals with disabilities: Part II.","authors":"H Barry Waldman, Steven P Perlman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79486,"journal":{"name":"Dental assistant (Chicago, Ill. : 1994)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31445325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How to comfortably place digital intraoral sensors.","authors":"Mary Ann Rupertus","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79486,"journal":{"name":"Dental assistant (Chicago, Ill. : 1994)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31445322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Darrin M Bentley, Cristina N Simkins, Michael A Williamson
{"title":"The management of Smoke Bomb Hill: three perspectives on the role of practice management.","authors":"Darrin M Bentley, Cristina N Simkins, Michael A Williamson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79486,"journal":{"name":"Dental assistant (Chicago, Ill. : 1994)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31445323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}