Dental Technicians Guild (DTG) Symposium Competition - Final Results:

Had a fantastic time seeing old friends and meeting new one's at this years DTG Symposium! Thank you for all of the positive remarks about my presentation - it really is appreciated! i know that many of you were not able to see the final case for the competition between Kai Ren Chiang and Nobu Tsuchimoto. They were instructed to fabricate a single central crown in a time limit of 1 1/2 hours.  We had a live patient that they were able to try the crown in and out of the mouth and then the judges, Skip Carpenter, Jungo Endo and Richard Greenlees were the judges to pick the closest one that matched.

So the patient who just happened to be Dawn M Roniger from GC, flew in from North Carolina to Texas, and was seen at my office for the preparation of the tooth and a veneer on the other central tooth (#9). We had to try to make the veneer as lifelike as possible so that the contestants and the judges would not notice that it had a veneer. Kudos and thanks to Joshua Polansky for taking the time to make the veneer darn near perfect to match the surrounding teeth!!! I thought he got an incredible result.

And thanks to Dawn for taking the tremendous amount of time it took to get this right and the numerous flights to Texas!

Thus, here is the final photo of the crown preparation (#8) with the cemented veneer (#9) in place that the contestants had to match. Pretty large feat to undertake!

Congratulations to both for making it to the final round and to Nobu for the win.

Sorry that I do not have the photos of the final 2 crowns to share but may be possible in a later post.

- Chad

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