Articulating Teeth and the Use of Byte Records

See blue dot. Erase blue dot. That was my clinical application of Occlusion at Dental school!

This episode was ‘Occlusion for Dental Students and New Grads’ – as featured on The Very Dental Student podcast.

Oklahoma based Dental student Mohamed Abo-Basha asked Jaz questions to make Occlusion tangible – exploring topics like using a face bow, understanding the importance of centric relation in everyday dentistry (and why in our DAILY bread and butter Dentistry, it’s not very important for 99% of our patients), and strategies for improving our ability to adapt to our patients’ occlusions.

Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below!

Highlights of the episode:

• 0:00 Intro
• 02:37 Mohamed Abo-Basha and The Very Dental Student Podcast
• 05:33 Always check Occlusion Pre-Op
• 11:29 Articulating Paper
• 16:43 Centric Relation
• 26:39 Facebows – what and why?
• 39:02 3D Scanner – can it replace traditional impressions and Facebow transfer?
• 43:57 Occlusal Diagnosis – does it benefit single tooth dentistry?
• 58:19 Outro

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