Dental Chapter 30

The Specialty that deals with the replacement of missing teeth or parts of teeth with extensive restorations

1. Restores masticatory Function
2. Improves aesthetics and often self-esteem
3. Improves speech
4. Promotes good oral hygiene
5. Prevents further movement of the teeth because of support of prostheses.

1. Aesthetic (looks better)
2. Secure in the mouth
3. Restores function for many years

1. Must have motivation to maintain the prostheses
2. Must have healthy supportive tissues

1. Indirect restoration
2. Direct restoration

Fabricated in the dental laboratory
3 examples are:
Crowns and bridges
Veneers
Inlays/ Onlays

Restoration placed directly on the tooth at appointment
Example:
Direct resin veeners

1.Impressions taken and sent to laboratory
2. Temporary restoration is fabricated and placed
3. Fixed prostheses are fabricated in the laboratory
4. Restpration is cemented in mouth at 2nd appointment

1. Anatomically shaped and fitted to tooth
2. Covers teeth with extensive decay or breakdown.
3. Placed when there is no longer enough tooth structure to retain a filling

1. Full-cast Crown
2. Partial Crown
3. Three quarter Crown

Covers entire coronal surface of the tooth.

1. Cast restoration that covers three or more surfaces of a tooth.
2. Facial surface is left intact

Computer-aided design/Computer-aided manufacturing

Porcelain Fused to Metal crown

1. Restoration placed within the tooth
2. Covers the area between the cusps in the middle of the tooth and the proximal surfaces that are involved