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 Now that my patients are getting their vaccinations I have noticed an uptick in my booked appointments. In the last 30 days there has been an influx of longstanding patients who were over due and effectively missing in action. Most have been staying at home and reported that they decided to come in two weeks after their second vaccination.   My staff and I are happy to see these returnees and now that many  are vaccinated  and the days are getting longer our spirits are New Yorkers' spirits seem to be lifting. The subways are more crowded and the foot traffic in our midtown area is definitely increasing. While I am glad that New Yorkers are getting more comfortable in our city, many of them have put off their regular dental visits due to our pandemic. The truth is  that with or with out vaccination our office and most other dental facilities are safe spaces.  My office has air purifiers located through out and weather permitting we leave our windows slightly open to allow ev

There are two common ways of restoring implants, cementable and screw retained. Using the cementable mode a dentist uses a post that screws into the implant and then fabricates a crown that is cemented onto it. Screw retained crowns on the other hand screw directly into the implant and no cement is needed to be used in the patients mouth. There are advantages and disadvantages to each technique, but more and more dentists are preferring screw retained implant restorations since they are usually more retrievable ( easy to unscrew and remove if needed) and no excess cement can remain in a patients mouth that may cause future problems for an implant. The problem is that often implants are placed at angles that can make it difficult to fabricate conventional screw retained implant restorations because the screw hole would come out in a undesirable place ( on the buccal, lingual or proximal surface). Five years ago our best option for these implants was to fabricate either a custom impl