GNYDM24 Product Focus: Ankur Gupta, DDS, talks about why he likes SDI's Stela dental restorative and what makes the material special

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Hi, my name is Ankur Gupta. I'm a general dentist. I've been practicing for 20 years, and even though I feel like you get better over time, which is [the case] with just certain levels of hand skills. [But] they're still like soul crushers in clinical dentistry. Like, let's say I do a filling and I really like how it looked. It looks good in the x-ray. And that patient comes back and says, ‘I can't chew on this side’ or ‘it's sensitive’. It just kills me, because I don't know what I did different. I don't know what I did wrong. And actually, that's what I really like to lecture about.

I like to lecture about what is the technology that exists today that makes it so that we are minimizing the chances of this type of soul crusher happening to us. Now, the product that I talked about at my lecture today is called Stela. It's from SDI, and it's the only restorative product that it's a chemical cure. So, you're not curing it. It's curing at the level of the primer. That means that the cure, the actual pull of energy and the pull of polymers, is towards the margin of your prep, creating the most gap free interfaces possible. There might be other products out there that do this, but I just don't know what they are. This is the one. This is like, where, if I have a deep filling, if I'm worried about being too close to the pulp, this is the stuff that I have to use.