What is the difference between stabilizing a case and going to complete dentistry? These are two of the three honest choices you give a patient, and you should be clear about both. Stabilizing means you slow things down and buy time. The nice thing about modern technology is we can hold people in a stable state far longer than we used to. Even with severe perio you have lasers, you have antibiotics, you have a real understanding of the disease. So stabilizing is legitimate. Nothing wrong with it. Complete dentistry is the opposite end. You focus on the whole mouth and [...]