Re: Mercury Free Dentist Surrenders License

From: StovePipe (stovepipeTR_at_SHglobetrotter.net)
Date: 09/01/04 

Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 01:08:53 GMT

Steven Fawks <tuthjockey@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Experience isn't always the key. I had a fellow once tell me, "I've
> been doing posterior composites this way for 15 years!". Considering
> that he said this 5+ years ago, he was screaming that he was way behind,
> but too stubborn to learn anything new.
>
> ;-(
> Fawks

Yes... I know that song... It's often a pride thing... people are too
proud to admit that they are WRONG, or what they have been doing for
that long is just so much wasted time. As the old expression says:
"There are none so blind as those who will not see..." I'm as guilty as
anyone with that, but reality has a nasty habit of jumping up and biting
me on the bum (and in the pocketbook) and that drags me back to Earth
occasionally...

BUT.... IIRC, SF, you are still using the same Heliomolar posterior
composite that you used all those years ago, and it's working well. So
maybe experience DOES count for something.... You also said that you
didn't like the newer densely packed materials that are being peddled
these days as posterior composites. This means that *modernizing* is not
always better as well: I'm more satisfied with the longevity of the
older posterior composite restorations using ScotchBond Multipurpose and
Z-250 than I am with the more 'modern' bonding, flowables, posterior
composites and surface polishes... Every once in a while I get one of my
old patients from the Downtown Combat Zone come Uptown to see me, and
while the surfaces are in need of polishing and re-sealing, the B/W's
show a better seal in the boxes and on the pulpal floor than much of
what I've done since... No flowable, nothing but those two chemicals.
Of, course, the contacts are atrocious (AutoMatrix and Wizard Wedges),
which is something I'm working on now with the Palodent (with mixed
results). I think I'll try Automatrix with ContactPro.

Anyways, we'll see what Ray Bertolotti says in October in Burlington.
b....o....O....M
SP 

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