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🧌👈How this Troll is Ruining Your Composites
Plus, a frustrating dental school lecture and a simple coffee trick
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…
Do you currently implement a protocol for killing MMPs? |
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 👇