Protrusive Dental Podcast

Patient has patchy white spots after braces — do you really whiten, or will that just make the spots stand out more? Tetracycline staining darker than your darkest shade tab — is bleaching even worth attempting, or is it veneers by default? A single dark, root-filled central inci ...  Show more

What if the tray is the reason your whitening results are inconsistent? Why would a dentist who owns a whitening lab — and holds four patents on making bleaching trays — tell you to skip the tray? Trayless whitening does not mean strips. It means the patient puts in a retractor a ...  Show more

Just qualified — so why does it feel like the learning is only just beginning? What should you actually focus on in year one: the flawless dentistry on your feed, or something far less glamorous? How do you tell a patient their nerve might die — without it sounding like YOUR faul ...  Show more

Your patient brushes well, avoids sweets — and still keeps getting decay. What if the answer isn’t in their mouth at all? What if two inexpensive finger-prick tests told you more about a patient’s gum disease and implant prognosis than anything on the radiograph? And here’s the u ...  Show more

Filling, stainless steel crown, pulpotomy or extraction — how do you actually decide on a deciduous tooth? Why is the lower first primary molar the one that always seems to flare up? When should you reach for silver diamine fluoride instead of the drill — and when is a child’s co ...  Show more