DentaltownUK June 2018 - 54

the wish list

DentaltownUK asks Dr Alif Moosajee:

What Would You Buy for Your Clinic
If Money Were No Object? ...
1. A dental microscope
I know how much of an improvement
magnification has made to the standard of the
clinical work that I do, and I think the next
step for me is to get a microscope ... but man,
are they expensive! I was lucky to use one in
Prague when I attended the Josef Kunkela
course and it was a real game-changer.

2. Digital facebow
and Sicat Function
As most people are aware, I'm really big
on digital dentistry-especially Cerec. I love
doing bigger cases using Cerec because it's such
a predictable way of providing restorations
for my patients.
I think the next step for me in improving
the accuracy of the full-mouth cases we do is
to incorporate an even more detailed process of
articulation that mimics exactly the patient's
own functional movements. This is made
possible by using hardware called a digital
facebow and incorporating the information
that it gives you into a CT scan. When this
is done, then you can articulate the patient
using software called Sicat Function, so you
or your technician can design the restorations
on an articulator that moves exactly the same
way as the patient does.

3. Five-axis milling machine

4. Hard-tissue laser

I love doing implant work. Cerec has
helped me to better plan my cases, and then
to execute very predictable surgery by milling
surgical guides that help me place the implant
in the correct position every time.
The only downside is that with the Cerec
milling unit I can mill only guides that allow
me to place one implant at a time, because
it's a four-axis milling unit. With a five-axis
unit I could mill guides that allow me to place
more than one implant, so I could plan and
execute bigger cases using only one guide.

On the whole, hard-tissue lasers are used
for preparation of cavities. But American
dentist Dr David Hornbrook explained that
a hard-tissue laser also lets dentists perform
crown-lengthening surgery without having
to raise flaps. If this is true and predictable,
that's what I would want a hard-tissue laser for.

Peer inside Dr Alif Moosajee's practice-online
DentaltownUK profiled Dr Alif Moosajee and his practice, Oakdale Dental
in Leicester, for a "Behind the Keyhole" feature in the February 2018 issue.
To read the article and to discover more about Moosajee-including the
inspiration behind his book, The Smiling Dentist-click here.

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5. 3D printer
I think this will be very useful to have
because it would allow me to print models
of 'wax-ups' so I can take silicon indices
and transfer a smile into the patient's mouth
immediately.
The problem is that the cheaper 3D
printers take a very long time to print, so I
think I would need one of the more expensive
ones to allow me to print the model at the
speed where it would be useful for this
application. ■
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