Fillings - Quadrant Dentistry

Knowing quadrant dentistry techniques can make your dentistry significantly more efficient.

In this video, Dr Lincoln Harris demonstrates a step-by-step process of whole quadrant dentistry, and offers tips on how to make the process seem less overwhelming and manageable.

It is important that you first place the Rubber Dam correctly, securing individual teeth using floss ligatures.

Dr Harris demonstrates his technique for wedge placement between posterior teeth before beginning the preparation for composite fillings.

Learn some of the tools I frequently use during procedures:

• The “AquaCut” air abrasion unit
• The “NSK” red band hand piece
• Ceramic burs.

Dr Harris will shares why he practices the way he does; for example he uses Flowable composite before every increment of composite resin, and doing a Buccal filling separately from an MOD on the same tooth.

 

Dr Harris shares his methods and bonding processes for anterior restorations.

 

Lastly, he shares his shaping and polishing procedures and explains why he mainly use a polishing disc rather than a bur.

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