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Here’s today’s good word:

• ⌚How long do your composites survive? Give yourself some credit, it’s better than you think.

• ☕Coffee Break. Older generations always complaining and busted iPhone myths.

• 🦠Trivia Night. An antibiotic trivia update you need to remember.

So you just placed that #19-DO restoration…

But your patient asks you a question.

Your palms get sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy…

And you say-

Correct. There are a lot of factors to consider.

But, let’s say we studied hundreds of thousands of posterior composite restorations

…and when we say “we”, we mean not actually us.

It was actually a group of very smart people from these dental schools👇

And they came up with a nice summarized number of median survival for posterior composites based on a huge dataset👇

with those >700k restorations coming from over 200k patients.

Yup, HUGE sample size.

So…we won’t bury the lead.

(Even though we ARE burying it in a trivia question🤣)

Not sure?

Here’s a little hint:

when we asked this question a few weeks ago, the majority of you UNDERESTIMATED survival time…

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