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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🤣)
In their analysis of 700,348 restorations,
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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