Six Lessons Approach Podcast by Dr. David Alleman
Learn about the evolution of biomimetic restorative dentistry with Dr. David Alleman, creator of the Six Lessons Approach. Each episode Dr. Alleman will discuss dental research, developments in adhesive dentistry and practical steps dentists can implement in their work to see more predictable results.
Learn more about Dr. David Alleman's work and teaching at allemancenter.com.
Hosted by Dr. David Alleman. Produced by Hillary Alleman and Audrey Alessi.
Episodes
32 episodes
Early Adhesive Dentistry: Materials and Key Opinion Leaders
As new dental materials are developed, manufacturers and key opinion leaders play a role in how widely those products are adopted. Manufacturers market new products, but key opinion leaders and teachers also influence practitioners by comparing...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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17:40
Using Chemical-Cure Dentin Bonding Systems for Endodontically Treated Teeth
Popular during the early years of adhesive dentistry, chemical-cure dentin bonding systems have since become less common with the rise of light-curing, but they still serve a purpose when restoring the pulp chambers of endodontically treated te...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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29:51
Synthesizing Research to Create Practical Dental Protocols
How does peer-reviewed literature make it into the hands of practicing dentists? Sometimes it doesn’t. Other times research can be misinterpreted and applied incorrectly. The process of analyzing and applying current research is time consuming ...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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24:10
Evidence-Based Dentistry: Literature Review for Dentists
Evidence-based dentistry aims to bring current dental research into daily practice, but the process of adopting new findings and translating them into protocols is a complicated and time-consuming process. Dr. David Alleman discusses how dentis...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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35:01
What is Biomimetic Dentistry?
Biomimetic dentistry can be defined by three main principles: preserve pulp vitality, conserve critical tooth structure and fully connect the tooth at 30 MPa or more. Mimicking nature (biomimetic) is about scientific analysis of how natural tee...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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25:42
What is Cosmetic Dentistry?
Does biomimetic dentistry mean to mimic how teeth look? It can, but there is more to it than that. Dr. David Alleman discusses the evolution of cosmetic dentistry and its intersection with minimally invasive dentistry, adhesive dentistry and bi...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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20:18
What is Adhesive Dentistry?
Adhesive dentistry has been taught in dental schools for decades and is widely used by dentists today. Bonding to a tooth offers increased adaptability of restorations, allowing for more minimally invasive treatment and preparation, but long-te...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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24:10
What is Minimally Invasive Dentistry?
Biomimetic restorative dentistry has been taught and practiced for over 20 years, with its roots linked to minimally invasive dentistry that started decades earlier. Minimally invasive dentistry sought to conserve tooth structure and restore on...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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21:55
Wallpapering Technique for Endodontically Treated Teeth
The wallpapering technique is a key protocol for extending the function of endodontically treated teeth. More brittle due to their reduced hydration, non-vital teeth are more prone to fracture, so using fiber in this way creates a fail-safe tha...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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27:31
Biomimetic Dentistry for Endodontically Treated Teeth
Dr. David Alleman first created his Six Lessons Approach for vital teeth, but the same conservative principles can benefit endodontically treated teeth too. Compared to traditional techniques for retention and bonding, the advanced adhesive and...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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23:08
Biomimetic Occlusion Part 2: Abfractions and Full-Mouth Cases
Daily dentistry, the cases you see every day, usually involves minor occlusal adjustments that can be treated quickly and predictably using the Six Lessons Approach, but biomimetic techniques can benefit more advanced occlusal cases too. In thi...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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20:58
Biomimetic Occlusion in Restorative Dentistry
Biomimetic dentistry aims to mimic a natural tooth throughout the restorative process. The last four decades of research has shown that mimicking and conserving a tooth’s natural connection to itself, its natural bond and resilience to occlusal...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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27:53
Enamel Replacement: Ceramic vs Composite
What is the best material for enamel replacement? It depends! When selecting the material of an onlay or overlay, understanding how a natural tooth functions during occlusion is essential if your goal is biomimetic dentistry. Harder is not bett...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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27:33
How Does Air Abrasion Affect a Restoration?
Air abrasion functions as a conditioning step when bonding, which means it prepares the dentin or composite molecules for bonding. Dr. David Alleman discusses the progression of bonding systems for dentin adhesion and how this conditioning step...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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27:56
Best Practices to Avoid and Treat Pulp Exposures
Dr. David Alleman’s landmark paper written with Dr. Pascal Magne in 2012 gave practitioners predictable steps for deep caries, and now crack, treatment without exposing the pulp. But why is preventing pulp exposures so important? Dr. Alleman di...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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21:35
Early Diagnosis of Caries and Cracks
Early diagnosis and treatment of dental pathologies allows for more conservative treatments while saving patients time and money. When developing the Six Lessons Approach to Biomimetic Dentistry, Dr. David Alleman created a risk assessment for ...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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20:01
Should You Remove All Stained Dentin?
Caries removal can be reproducible — this means consistent regardless of patient or practitioner. Caries detecting dye is essential to creating reproducible caries removal endpoints, but the techniques doctors pair with the dye are what prevent...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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19:57
The Difference Five Minutes Make: Decoupling with Time
Each lesson in the Six Lessons Approach to Biomimetic Dentistry (SLA) is essential to restoring a tooth in a way that stays bonded and symptom-free. These two failings of traditional techniques — debonded restoration and post-operative sensitiv...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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18:34
Understanding the Third Most Common Dental Pathology
Cracks are the third most common dental pathology dentists treat, but treating them in a predictable way requires an understanding of principles from engineering, histology and immunology. How do cracks in teeth form? Why do cracks in teeth cau...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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31:00
What Causes Dental Failures?
Where do failures happen in dentistry? At the micron level. Bacteria create infections; micromovements initiate cracks; these are the root of failed restorations, infected pulps, and cracked teeth. Experiencing his own failures from traditional...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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22:00
Resin Coating
Resin coating should always be included in the conversation with immediate dentin sealing, but it isn’t. Immediate dentin sealing can increase bond strengths by 400%, but resin coating functions at the opposite end of the adhesive equation by r...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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31:42
Immediate Dentin Sealing
Immediate dentin sealing is a commonly known technique even outside of advanced adhesive and biomimetic restorative dentistry. Originally developed in the 1990’s to solve the issue of temporization contamination, its uses once refined were imme...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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34:00
A Tale of Two Teeth
Throughout dental school and into his early career, Dr. David Alleman had a tooth with an occlusal amalgam that experienced intermittent pain on biting. The tooth was examined, but no cause for the symptom was found. Years later, after thorough...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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23:00
Australian Mavericks: Let's Remove the Cracks
In 2000, Graem Milicich and Tim Rainey published an article outlining how traditionally treated teeth were at greater risk to infections from cracks due to the increased stresses on the tooth. This includes peripheral rim fractures, which occur...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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24:12
Could This Type of Dentistry Make Me a Happy Dentist?
In 1995 Dr. David Alleman wanted to quit dentistry. Frustrated with failing restorations and post-operative sensitivity, he couldn’t see how his work was helping his patients. A long-time friend and colleague encouraged him to take a course by ...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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22:15