Dental Info

  Ever since the 2020 Pandemic, commercial realestate in our neighborhood has not been doing well. There are a lot of office space available and in our midtown neighborhood there are no longer many large employers renting space. Traditionally midtown dental practices relied on these large employers for supplying many of our patients. Also a number of long time residents of Manhattan have moved elsewhere.  In our building , 30 East 40th st, most tenants arevmedical and dental practices. Traditionally, because construction costs of dental offices were high enough that it discouraged dentists from moving to other buildings when there leases were up for renewal. We renewed our least last May and signed a five year lease. It seems that some of my colleagues have chosen not to renew.  ln the last two weeks , I was able to walk through six of vacant dental offices. The dentists left for a number of reasons including retirement, joining other dental practices, selling their ...

 At the moment we are taking impressions two different ways. The traditional way is still valid and involves using elastomeric impression material, usually PVS type. Often this requires cord packing prior to taking the impression. If use properly it can take extremely accurate impressions . The models are poured up by the lab and mounted using a bite registration. The resulting dental restorations made on these models can fit extremely well. Some inaccuracies can result when the opposing models are mounted and can necessitate occlusal adjustments on the restorations before they are luted in the mouth. We recently purchased a state of the art Trios 3D Scanner and my son has been using it extensively for taking full arch impressions of the mouth and opposing arch, even for single restorations. These scans, if done with appropriate care are extremely accurate. I believe their digital mountings are even more accurate than the 'old school' techniques that I use. We ask the lab to u...