10 December 2021
The worldwide diffusion of the SARS-CoV-2 virus caused a global scale public health emergency and, on 11 March 2020, forced the World Health Organisation (WHO) to declare a pandemic [1].
Research into the COVID-19 pathogen has shown that person-to-person transmission of the virus occurs largely…
9 December 2021
Covid-19 hit Italy in 2020 with unexpected and unprecedented force and impact. As the pandemic spread, Italy was the first European country to be seriously affected; other European countries only experienced similar levels of infection much later.
As the number of cases, hospitalisations and deaths…
19 November 2021
Taking an impression from an adult is normally a routine procedure for an experienced dentist. In the vast majority of cases it is stressful neither for the dentist nor the patient unless the latter has a particularly strong pharyngeal reflex. In the worst hypothesis, a second impression may have to…
18 November 2021
Impression trays are devices used to carry, contain and control impression material during the taking of an impression. They also serve as containers for holding impression material during the production of a negative copy. (1)
In short, impression trays permit the application of impression material…
17 November 2021
Polyvinylsiloxanes (PVSs), or addition silicones, are elastomers that are widely used as impression materials in dentistry. (1) Thanks to their advanced characteristics, PVSs are currently considered the gold standard for accurate impressions.
They offer excellent levels of precision, accuracy…
10 November 2021
“The gallery of smiles” is the fifth and last episode of our webseries “Get ready to impress with Zhermack!”
With it we are going to discover the very ultimate goal of our daily job: make people smile, every day.
Making people confident in their day-to-day life by delivering healthy smiles is not a simple…
21 October 2021
The “Glossary of Prosthodontics terms” defines bite registration as the recording of the positional relationship of the teeth or antagonist arches or as the positional recording of the teeth or jaws in relation to one another. (1)
Stable and accurate bite registration is fundamental for facilitating…
21 October 2021
The Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry recently published an interesting study evaluating the accuracy and precision of different elastomer materials for impression-taking on implants (1). More specifically, using a master model simulating an edentulous patient requiring All-on-four rehabilitation,…
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