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There is an easy solution, which is a mouthguard, that can be worn at night. Here are some common indications that you might need a mouth guard. Jaw Pain: Teeth grinding can cause jaw pain. Do you commonly have a sore jaw? How about the muscles around your lower face, especially just beneath your ear? …
Sterile technique fails at the handling stage just as easily as it fails during a procedure. The moment a hand reaches into a sterile container or an autoclaved instrument is picked up by its working end, the sterile chain is broken. Cheatle Forceps exist to prevent exactly that. They are a dedicated transfer instrument, not …
A broken cheekbone changes the shape of a person’s face almost immediately. The zygomatic bone sits right under the eye and gives the cheek its contour, so when it fractures, the face can look sunken, flattened, or uneven on one side. Putting that bone back where it belongs takes a tool built for the job, …
Walk into an operating room, a dental office, or even a first-aid kit, and you will find tools that look almost identical but do very different jobs. Tweezers and forceps fall into that category. People use the words interchangeably all the time, but anyone who has worked with surgical instruments knows they are built differently …
If you have ever sat in the dental chair and watched your clinician load a small, gritty paste into a spinning rubber cup before working it across your teeth, you have witnessed prophylaxis paste in action. For many patients, it is simply the bit of the appointment that leaves a minty taste and a smooth, …