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Keep Your Teeth Framework

Threshold based clinical decision making in dentistry

This book defines the formal structure of the Keep Your Teeth Framework. It is designed to be teachable, repeatable, and structurally precise. Each chapter builds toward one decision architecture: Structure, Force, Time, and Long-Term Stability.

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Official doctrine structure

This page is the canonical table of contents for the doctrine.

Prologue

Because the Ending Is Where Dentistry Gets Honest

Part I

The problem

The illusion of immediate solutions
The difference between diagnosis and decision
Escalation bias in clinical practice
The failure of early judgment

Part II

Structural responsibility

Ownership of irreversible treatment
Preservation as obligation
Optionality and long term pathways
Projection as clinical duty

Part III

The model

The four variables of KYT Framework
Structure
Force
Time
Long-term stability

Part IV

Threshold

Defining structural threshold
Acting too soon
Acting too late
Convergence

Part V

Application

Large filling vs crown
Crown vs root canal
Implant vs bridge
Monitoring vs intervention
Bite instability
Replacement instability

Closing

The discipline of threshold thinking

Appendices

Glossary
KYT Framework clinical evaluation form
Case models
About the author