Universal Hybrid Composite Facilitates Conservative Enhancements to Patients' Smiles.

As dental composite materials have evolved, their properties and overall quality have improved. New composites can be ideal for simplifying highly esthetic, long-lasting, minimally invasive restorations in a timely manner. This article presents two cases in which a universal composite with a chameleon effect was used in anterior restorations to achieve exceptional blending and a natural-looking appearance with the adjacent dentition.

Early and prolonged opportunities to practice suturing increases medical student comfort with suturing during clerkships: Suturing during cadaver dissection.

Medical students are expected to perform common procedures such as suturing on patients during their third-year clerkships. However, these experiences are often viewed by medical students as stressors rather than opportunities for learning. The source of this stress is the lack of instruction on common procedures prior to being asked to observe or perform the procedure on a patient.

Soft and hard tissue management using lasers in esthetic restoration.

Laser technology has become preeminent in the evolution of appearance enhancements. Dentistry has seen a huge breakthrough with the introduction of a combination hard-soft tissue erbium wavelength. The conservative nature of this technique has created a firm footing in the antiaging trend that is spanning the globe.