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Efficient Treatment Planning
Using a Digital Workflow
Technologies optimize aesthetics,
improve patient care experience

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Telio CAD
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Wieland Zenotec Hybrid
Select (Ivoclar Vivadent)

by Jonathan L. Ferencz, DDS, FACP
Jonathan Ferencz, DDS, FACP,
graduated from Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute in 1967 and
the New York University College of
Dentistry in 1971. He then received
a certificate in prosthodontics
from NYU in 1984.
Ferencz has been on the faculty
at NYU since 1972 and was named
clinical professor of postgraduate prosthodontics and
certified by the American Board of Prosthodontics in 1998.
He serves as an adjunct professor of restorative dentistry
at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine
and clinical professor of dental medicine at the Columbia
University College of Dental Medicine. He is a past president
of the Greater New York Academy of Prosthodontics, the
Northeastern Gnathological Society and the American
College of Prosthodontists.
Ferencz has several published articles and has
given more than 300 courses and programs throughout
North America, South America, Europe and Asia. His areas of
research have included high-strength ceramics, CAD/CAM
and complete dentures.

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AUGUST 2018 // dentaltown.com

Introduction
Almost every dentist who treats a patient requiring multiple single-unit indirect
restorations either creates chairside provisionals or requests that the laboratory
fabricate a shell that the dentist must then reline. In either case, the aesthetic result
is usually less than ideal, the fit is poor and the reline material does not match
perfectly. Additionally, with each reline, occlusion might require an adjustment
because of polymerization shrinkage. These procedures are time-consuming and
tedious for both dentist and the patient.
Such inconveniences are considered part and parcel of indirect restorative
procedures. Patients and dentists have begrudgingly come to accept that multiple
appointments are required for taking uncomfortable and unpleasant impressions-
or, worse yet, remaking them, viewing hard-to-visualize-the-real-thing wax-ups,
and placing, removing and replacing temporary restorations ... all before the final
restorations are even delivered. However,
with a digital dental workflow, all of
that changes.
When digital dental
Imagine only two clinical visits
for provisionalizing and delivering a
technologies are in
treatment involving multiple single-unit
restorations. While it may have been
the practice, they
unheard of just f ive years ago, it's
becoming increasingly commonplace
improve the clinical
throughout dental practices today when
workflow, practice
intraoral scanners, in-office CAD/CAM
and aesthetic high-strength millable
efficiency and
provisional and definitive restorative
materials are used. In fact, when digital
overall patient care
dental technologies such as these are in
the practice, they improve the clinical
experience.
workflow, practice efficiency and overall
patient care experience.1
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