A dental-science guide for tooth gem technicians.
The five biological factors that determine gem retention, written by an AHPRA-registered Oral Health Therapist who has placed on 600+ clients. Most technicians never encounter this material in a one-day course.
Sixteen pages, no email gate, no upsell sequence. Download, read, apply on Monday.
This guide covers the five biological factors that determine gem retention, information most technicians never encounter in a one-day course. Written by an AHPRA-registered Oral Health Therapist with 600+ clients.
Every placement is dental work before it is jewellery. If you treat it that way, your retention rate climbs, your refund rate falls, and your clients come back for their next piece instead of emailing you a photo of an empty tooth. The guide is the condensed version of the clinical reasoning we teach across the academy tiers.
Why the standard "etch for 15 seconds" advice fails. Understanding enamel variability across clients, teeth, and conditions. The same surface preparation protocol can produce wildly different results depending on factors most technicians never learn.
Saliva pH, medications, dietary acids, and dental disease. The hidden variables that determine whether your gems last or fail. Saliva is the single most underestimated determinant of gem retention, and its composition varies dramatically between clients.
A printable, step-by-step checklist for enamel assessment and surface preparation. Use this before every single appointment. Covers the five-point enamel assessment, contraindication screening, and surface preparation sequence.
Client candidacy red flags. Veneers, crowns, orthodontics, pregnancy, medications. When gem application is contraindicated and how to communicate refusal professionally without losing the client relationship.
When a gem falls off at three days versus three months versus three weeks, each timeline points at a different root cause. A diagnostic framework you can run on every lost gem to correct the next placement, not just repeat the same mistake.
Sixteen pages, structured the way we run a clinical handover. First an assessment frame, then the four biological factors one at a time, then the printable pre-application checklist, then a diagnostic page for reading retention failures after the fact.
No filler, no stock photography, no sales pages. The same reference sheets sit on the tray during every Sydney and Adelaide placement. Print it, annotate it, keep it within arm's reach of the chair.
No email required, just dental-grade knowledge.
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