Good morning ya MMP killas!

Before we get to the literature, a public service announcement: Dentists are apparently falling victim to new phone scams which include calls from cops, subpoenas, and fake court fines. Be aware out there.

Here’s today’s better news

• 🧌The Trolls Ruining Your Composites. The literature of MMPs and how to kill the guys killing your bonding

• ☕Coffee Break. A frustrating dental school physics lecture and a 3D printed jaw

• 🤵Bond. Zirconia, Bond. Bonding zirconia and looking forward to 2024!

Killing the Guys, Killing Your Bonding.

So 6 months ago, you finished a simple #13-DO restoration. No complications. No follow-up. It was beautiful.

But your patient is back…

That’s right. These are the matrix metalloproteinasis…or MMPs for short. And these guys are killing your dentin bonding.

So…

If not…let us explain why you should…

These MMPS…well, they’re losers, a$$hol3s, or whatever other cuss word ya wanna call them.

And they love two things:

And there are two important things to remember about bonding to dentin

1️⃣We want dentin with “fluffy” collagen (without a slime layer)

2️⃣ Dentin bonding sucks….like really sucks…and at least some of that suckiness has to do with MMPs!

I mean, look at these numbers 👇