I always listen: but for Hirata it’s easy to talk; for me it’s harder. Can be. I never was anyone but myself, even so I remember a phrase from Professor Baratiere, whose message of his joke only intelligent people dully understood. He said: “remember I wasn’t born Baratieri, I made myself Baratieri”.

Dr. Nikaido graduated as a dental surgeon at Hokkaido University in 1985. In 1990, he completed his PhD at Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), under the supervision of Professor Dr. Nabuo Nakabayashi. Until last year he was a professor, with the position of “Senior Lecturer”, in the area of Cariology and Operative Dentistry, at Department of Oral Health Sciences, TMDU Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences. In 2019, he transferred to the Asahi University School of...

Introduction: The decision of whether or not to extract a tooth with questionable prognosis is common in the daily clinic. To make the right decision, we must take into account various factors such as endodontic, periodontal, and restorative prognosis, as well as factors based on patient type, expectations, hygiene habits, tobacco use, systemic state, etc. Description: We present the case of a patient, a non-smoker, with good health condition and with a lot of interest in keeping all his...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the platform, apical and angular accuracy of implant placement using dynamic navigation surgery, and to compare it to freehanded implant placement technique in clinically simulated model surgery. The study focused on overall accuracy measurements of implant placement by dental students relative to virtual plans on dentate models. Methods: Two dental students without surgical experience in Implantology placed 44 implants in sawbones models of...

With the objec ve of discuss and present results of hot topics on aesthe c den stry, the Highlights sec ons has brought to you a few important and recent researchs published on the mainstream interna onal periodics, with the focus of this ed on being intracanal posts on endodon cally treated teeth. Due to the di cult and challenging scenario that this kind of treatment imposes to the clinician, and in part also due to the recent innova ons on the fi eld, a few s dies were...

This study evaluated the repair bond strength (RBS), contact angle (θ) and surface morphology of composite resin repairs on dentin (DE), composite resin (CR) and dentin-composite resin interface (DE-CR), after different surface treatments. Bovine incisors were used for RBS and θ tests; CR blocks (Opallis, FGM, Brazil) were prepared for θ evaluation with water. All samples were separated into four groups (n=10 for RBS; n=5 for θ), according to the bonding agent applied: no surface...

The title message represents much more than an irony. More profoundly, it is a critique to the obsessive quest for beauty, to the technicism still so prevalent in Dentistry, and especially to the exaggerations and overtreatments as a consequence from a saturated market. If, on the one hand, we marvel at the possibilities of acting thanks to technological advances, on the other, we have an increasing number of lectures and courses with mere expositions of operative sequences, accompanied by...

Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the dental surgeons’ self-perception on color selection processes in Dentistry. Methods: The study followed a cross-sectional observational design using an electronic questionnaire with objective questions, to evaluate the influence of sociodemographic data — sex, age range, time of clinical service and dental specialty type — on the dental surgeons’ experience on color selection in Dentistry, and reliability to perform direct...

We asked the architect Letícia Kracik Breda to produce a project that would transmit the concept of a KI clinic to patients, combining aesthetics, art and design. Aesthetics and architecture were approached perennially, assigning great importance to the existing spaces, nature and natural lighting. Timeless and especially symbolic elements were chosen. At the entrance, a large red door greets the patients, in the Eastern tradition of welcoming those that arrive at one’s home. The...

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Introduction: This is the third article of a series of six manuscripts about composite resins in the last 10 years. Since composite resin is widely used, the aim of this review was to analyze the relationship between different types of light-curing units (LCU) and the composition of several composite resins. Methods: A search in PubMed database was performed using the MeSHs photoactivation and composite resins. The articles were chosen according to relevance and publishing date from 2008 to...

Today I bring a theme that has generated me uneasiness. Increasingly we are faced with young patients complaining of pains related to cervical dentin hypersensitivity, face and head muscular pains, dental wear not compatible with their ages and some type of discomfort in the temporomandibular joint. Signs and symptoms of modern life. And as a professional and educator, the question I ask myself is: are dentists capable of treating these patients? Modern life offers a range of situations that...

Objective: In order to solve multiple diastemas, the present clinical case describes a classic technique with a modification, allowing professionals to appropriately achieve width proportions based on a modified wax-up, transposing with a higher degree of assertiveness what was planned in the dental cast to the patients’ mouth. Methods: After the patient’s impression and the pouring of the dental cast, a silicone index based on a modified wax-up was done, replacing conventional wax by...

Palatal and mandibular tori are developmental disorders classified as morphological abnormalities of late palatal and mandibular growth and maturation. Familial cases and persistence in older and edentulous individuals suggest a genetic origin, which is just beginning to be unraveled. The interpretation of tori as an adaptive response to occlusal overload, bruxism and other external factors seems inadequate, because tori are not adaptive hyperplasia or hypertrophies. Tori are bony protuberances...

We are approaching the date of one more meeting of the Brazilian Group of Professors of Restorative Dentistry. And, as is the case in all our Congresses, renowned professors will be attending it, bringing the most advanced knowledge about the themes that concern our specialty. In addition, there will be discussions about teaching Restorative Dentistry in Brazilian universities. In the past, the best method to protect the dentin and pulp complex has been discussed, and whether there is still...

When I entered the School of Dentistry as an undergraduate, I never imagined the path I tread today. We are conditioned to be office dentists – the famous open your mouth, close your mouth. I look back and see how deficient my education was, not in technical aspects, but in making us better human beings. Our courses cover both teeth and anatomy, root canals and classifications, but leave out “smiling”, humanization in Dentistry. Life in society is a school for that. All should attend...

The number of technical innovations keeps growing. Keeping up to date and dealing with so many options is difficult for a clinical dentist, who makes a living from the private office. There are few studies about the success of techniques associated with the use of productivity management techniques. And we ask ourselves why the success achieved in some treatments is not the same for all patients

Let’s go for another edition of real life dentistry. Just like your routine, mine and many other colleagues are “ hard “, with many appointments, problems and daily achievements, always trying to do the best for our patients in all aspects.

Please Dr, he complains about the aesthetics in his central incisor. I proposed 32 veneers in the “bianco lavandino” shade