Dentistry is the greatest profession in the world!!……there are very few careers where you can have such an immediate and life changing effect on the people you work on. Last week I was in Puebla Mexico on a dental mission trip organized by Danny Domingue at the Wehrle Implant Immersion Institute. Mike Wehrle has an incredible operation down there but has done his implants with a mostly analog approach. He wanted to learn the fully digital workflow that Danny and myself teach at our full arch course so he found this wonderful patient for us to collab on. 
I did a facial analysis and a smile simulation to help design new teeth for the patient and I planned the ideal implant positions in Blue Sky Plan based on the waxup and simulation. 
Dr. Wehrle used the surgical guide to place 6 implants in the maxilla and then Danny performed intraoral scans and a Grammetry scan to accurately record the implant positions. 
Using this data, Danny’s lab (Louisiana Dental Implant Lab) designed her new teeth overnight and sent us the file. The teeth were 3D printed in bleach shade OnX Tough resin on a Sprintray 95 printer and then I stained/glazed using GC Optiglaze. This FP1 prosthetic was delivered the very next day and retained by the Vortex Screws designed by Danny. This allowed the prosthetic to be attached directly to the multi-unit abutments.
This patient was so appreciative that she came back to the clinic 2 days later just to thank us in person and take a picture with us because she said “This has completely changed my life already” …….. and it absolutely shows when you look at her eyes and the way she’s smiling in the before/after photos. This was a total team effort and took decades of combined experience to pull off but these are the moments that make it 100% worthwhile.
