Restorative Archives - Initial Insight

October 11, 2019

Transcodent Luer Lock Handpiece (for evacuation)

Suction tips just don’t always fit where you want them. Even those little surgical ones. Especially when you are just trying to keep that…

October 11, 2019

What honestly, personally keeps me from using rubber dam more often? The clamp… I hate clamping teeth! Maybe it is just me, but I…

September 27, 2019

Bur holders come in all shapes and sizes. Some are covered, some are labeled, some are magnitized…. I found the same frustrations with all…

September 27, 2019

Every year, as part of our accreditation for the public health clinic I worked at, we had to try safety needle systems. If we…

September 6, 2019

Topical anesthetic is one of those things that is just an automatic. You dip a cotton swab in the jar and hand the doctor…

September 6, 2019

As I’ve mentioned before, I like having options. There are so many different treatment situations and you never know what is going to walk…

September 6, 2019

The nice thing about when I was a dental assistant was that no one was afraid of me. Now that I am a dentist,…

August 23, 2019

As a dental assistant, I found myself many times taking a torch to the distal extension of a plastic tray. I was trying to…

August 23, 2019

Let’s be honest. Most of us do not use rubber dam as much as we probably should. It is the gold standard in isolation….

August 16, 2019

As a public health dentist, not unlike a general practioner, one always finds them-self trouble shooting. Nothing was ever what it seemed on the…