Welcome to season 1, episode 2 of the Clinical Hacks Podcast! In this riveting episode, each of the Hacks discusses their tissue retraction methods for crown and bridge impressions/scans. Highlights today include: There are a lot of different ways to retract tissue, how do we do it if we're impressing?   How about scanning? Medicaments?  How many chemicals can Zach put in the mouth simultaneously just to dry things up? Compression caps, an inexpensive way to get some pressure hemostasis. Products talked about in the episode: Zach Siltrax Plus Premier Retraction Caps Quick-Stat FS (generic of Astringedent) Quick-Stat Free (generic of Viscostat Clear) Alan Traxodent Aquasil Ultra Cordless Knit-Pak+ Cord Astringedent X   Kevin Gingi-Aid Z-Twist Viscostat Clear Lidocaine with Epi 1:50,000     If you want to interact with us, head over to the closed Facebook Group Clinical Hacks We want to produce episodes about the questions you have, it's a great place to post a clinical topic, you don't even have to post a photo!