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Today a have a hand full of retainers to go out today. They all have labial acrylic! I have a love/hate relationship with labial acrylic (mostly hate) They add an extra level of complexity and time to a retainer. Even…
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yes you heard that right I got a requests from a doctor to make a retainer with a labial bow 2-2 with NO adjustment loops. Why? well, we will get into what I think the doctor was thinking. I think…
Today we follow up on something I mention in a earlier stream, "I have not done much acrylic application this year!" Today I attempt to change that. We will be adding acrylic to 4 3D printed models. 1. I show…
What happens when a doctor sends in a retainer to the lab to be repaired? We look over the problems and the different types of repair possibilities. Join me live and ask questions and make suggestions! Things I order for…
Hello! After over 1 and a half years gone, I'm back with a live stream! Today we will attempt to make a retainer with C Clasps welded to the labial bow. We will be using the PUK 5 by Lampert…
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Today's Wire Wednesday lands on independence day here in the States. So we will be having fun with Red, White and Blue Acrylic designs. Now I have not done many designs with these colors in the past so we will see how they go. Either way, we will have some […]
Here is an interesting view I saw while trimming this retainer. You can see the line between the two colors I used for this retainer. One way I try to save money, use just enough colored acrylic to cover the wires then switch to the cheaper clear acrylic to fill […]
For those of you who have asked which company I get my acrylics from it is from JBC and Company. When I asked Pricilla if I could post her Catalog to my site so that others can download it an look up some of the things I use easier she […]
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I was looking back at my earlier videos I made and saw the zebra one. I noticed first it looked more Tiger than zebra, and it was all pictures, no videos (this was pre-iphone era!) plus, half the pics were out of focus! See old video here So I decided […]
Ive been wanting to update the zebra retainer Youtube video. So I tried to sneak some video footage of my acrylic pro Ivan while he was doing a black and red zebra retainer. I caught him kinda of late, he already started, but I think you will get the idea. […]
A video I shot of the trimming process involved in the process of making a retainer. This is actually 2 videos of 2 different retainers, this first time I shot the video(with the blue retainer) I either lost some video or thought I pressed record when I didn’t. Either way, […]
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