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Podcast: Protrusive Dental Podcast
Episode: Philosophy of Functional Occlusion with Riaz Yar – PDP066
Description: Canine guidance is overrated. Read that again. Crazy, I know. In this episode, one of my mentors Dr Riaz Yar explains the rationale of a functional occlusion whereby the pillars are the central incisor and the first molar.
https://youtu.be/aQRQ43R4Obg
Dr Riaz Yar is SUCH a good Educator
I found some similarities to the Posterior Guided Occlusion (click to listen to the episodes by Dr Andy Toy) in that we place too much emphasis on canine guidance.
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