Ovate Pontics for Bridges – The Complete Guide with Dr Jason Smithson – PDP158

Ovate pontics are what you choose when you want the best aesthetics for fixed dental bridges - but how do you go about prescribing this to your lab?




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How do you carry out 'pontic site development' and how can you assess the soft tissues for suitability?



Get your onions ready, Protruserati, it's another cracker with that man Dr Jason Smithson who will make ovate pontics tangible.







We've also made a kick-ass infographic for you to download alongside 2 PDFs recommended by Dr Jason Smithson, summarising all that Dr Smithson taught on this episode. [Also available in the Protrusive Vault for premium subscribers]



Protrusive Dental Pearl: Jaz's Rule for Resin Bonded Bridges




For Metal winged adhesive bridges, do not accept more than 1 compromise



For Zirconia RBBs, do not accept any compromises!



Examples of compromises: small abutment teeth (and thus smaller surface area for bonding), poor quality enamel, awkward path of insertion, dodgy occlusions etc




Join us on Saturday 30th September for Occlusion and Communication Day at London Heathrow - amazing speakers on 2 huge topics!



As promised, check out the PDF on Ovate Pontics by Professor Bill Robbins and more about the E-Pontic here.



Learn more from Dr Jason Smithson and his Restorative Programme.



Also, check out his courses with Spear Education.



Highlights from this episode to follow.



Robbins Ovate Pontics PDFDownload



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Click below for full episode transcript:



Jaz's Introduction: This episode will be the definitive guide to all things OVATE PONTICS. Now, we actually cover bridge pontics in general, and when we qualified from dental school, we only really learned the modified ridgelap or the ridgelap.



Jaz’s Introduction:Look, they're okay pontics, they do the job, but they're ugly. Ovate pontics are egg shaped or bullet shaped, and they emerge from the soft tissues, and they look really natural.



As well as that, they offer really good cleansability as well. So Ovate Pontic is the best kind of pontic you can aim for. But it's so difficult to find good content online when it comes to Ovate Pontics, until now.



I got on, once again, Dr. Jason Smithson, who, to me, is the best dentist in the world. He is amazing. I've been to so many courses. He's taught me so much. And it's just always a pleasure to have him on the podcast. I tried to really extract as much as I could from Jason Smithson during this episode to try and cover a lot of depth, but also a bit more breadth around this topic. What I also did in the editing stages of this episode is I really stacked it with lots of visuals, because sometimes when you talk about topics like this, when it's not visual, it's very difficult to follow along.



Now, for all my Protruserati audio listeners, don't worry, all of it can be followed along by audio, but when a visual is really going to enhance the learning, I've put that on the screen. So for those of you who are watching on YouTube or on the app with the premium notes, you're probably going to gain a bit more.



So I encourage you if you can make the time to do this, like an on demand webinar kind of thing, right? Just study all the visuals that will really compliment what we're talking about. In this episode, we discussed case selection for ovate pontics and all the nuances, like how deep do you actually go into soft tissues, which kind of soft tissues are suitable.



What if you don't have enough soft tissue and everything you have to do to actually develop your pontic site. At the end of the episode we also see the return of Am I Naughty If, because I shared with Jason a shortcut way of working with ovate pontics to try and bypass th...