The BiteFX Blog for All Things Relating to Occlusion

This 'Bite Tip' will save you thousands of dollars and keep you from grinding your teeth!

For those that don’t know me I first need to let you know that throughout my career as a dental technician occlusion has been one of my strong points. I have had to learn all the past and current philosophies whether it be Pankey-Dawson, LVI Myotronics, Bio-Esthetic, you name it. If my dentist

A statement that I heard in my early days of studying occlusion and which helped clarify occlusion’s purpose and my mission was:

We're in animation production mode right now so are busy working on satisfying many of the requests that BiteFX users have been requesting.

We always welcome your suggestions as you know best what will make a difference to your practice. Use the comment box below this post to describe what you'd like to see or to add comments on the suggestions of others.

If you’re like me and you love to prep teeth, in all honesty it’s somewhat exciting when you have a new patient on the schedule with a broken back molar. If the schedule is light, it’s almost compelling you restore that molar with a crown "on the spot". But if you understand how occlusion forces destroy mouths and  recognize this new patient is loaded with excessive signs, perhaps not symptoms, of occlusion disease, this is a golden opportunity to show your character by acting in the best interest of the patient and not yours.

Would you agree that most patients are interested in information and dentistry that will prevent them developing dental problems in the future?

(Taken from a BiteFX forum post by Fred Peck DDS)

When the hygienist is charting pocket depth, tooth mobility should also be recorded. Explain to the patient what the tooth mobility means and that you will show them a visual animation at the end of the appointment. Upon completion of the visit, have your hygienist show the patient the BiteFX animation showing tooth mobility.

(BiteFX Forum Article posted by Suzan Bekolay of Click Coaching)

In working with only joint based occlusion practices for a very long time, I'm a raving fan of BiteFX - a sophisticated replacement for the Denar tutor I have frequently seen collecting dust on many a doctor's shelf.  I've encouraged the use of BiteFX in ways beyond the case presentation and teaching staff; strongly agreeing with other forum posts there is

(BiteFX Forum Article posted by Suzan Bekolay of Click Coaching)

3.    Hygienists trigger movement

Understandably reluctant to press, sell or strong arm, hygienists struggle with what to do.  He/she can trigger conversation and change with BiteFX and let BiteFX do the talking.  EG: She observes cracks.  (It's especially helpful if interferences are charted so she can see the correlation quickly.) She/he captures an image of the crack, the

(BiteFX Forum Article posted by Suzan Bekolay of Click Coaching)

2.    Weaving BiteFX into the first visits

• Before leaving the pre-clinical interview: Run a simple sequence of animations; EG: Open/closed comparison