With improvement in material properties of ceramic restorative materials, these materials have been used as the definitive restoration material instead of the dental alloy, even in the posterior region. The incomplete fit of full crown restorations remains a critical problem for dentists, leading many researchers to study this problem. The distribution and magnitude of stress at any point can b...

The master apical preparation size in root canal therapy is debatable despite considerable research. The present study compared file sizes that bind at the apex before and during crown-down preparation and assessed the relation between apical size and extent of intracanal bacterial load. There were 100 single-rooted teeth biomechanically prepared after inoculation with Enterococcus faecalis. Ca...

AIM To gather data from Diplomates of the American Board of Endodontics regarding treatment of dilacerated canals. MATERIALS AND METHODS A questionnaire addressing definition, endodontic treatment procedures and prognosis was constructed and distributed via e-mail to 708 Diplomates of the American Board of Endodontics. Data from 150 respondents, a 21% response rate, were collected by using a ...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES To evaluate the retention of complete cast crowns in teeth with adequate and inadequate crown height and to evaluate the effects of auxiliary retentive features on retention form complete cast crowns. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixty freshly extracted human premolars. They were divided into 2 major groups depending upon the height of the teeth after the preparation. Group1 ...

Preparation of (di)benzocrown-substituted aryl-zinc or -boron reagents and their palladium-catalysed cross-coupling with functionalised aryl halides is described for convenient synthesis of novel crown ether systems.

BACKGROUND/AIM Fracture toughness determines functional crown strenght and prevents damages on ceramics during mastication. There is a lack of relevant literature data about fracture toughness of crowns made by feather-edge preparation. Mechanical testing of ceramic samples is supposed to show if feather-edge tooth preparation is a successful method for making ceramic crowns without any risk of...

In this clinical study, 19 full metal crown restorations of canine teeth were placed in seven working dogs. Thirteen canine teeth were severely abraded with no involvement of the pulp cavities; six fractured canine teeth were endodontically treated. At least 1/3 of the coronal part of the canine tooth was available for a supragingivally performed, minimal tooth crown preparation. An adhesive te...

PURPOSE To evaluate the effect of ferrule preparation length on the fracture resistance after simulated surgical crown lengthening and after forced tooth eruption of endodontically-treated teeth restored with a carbon fiber-reinforced post-and-core system. METHODS 40 extracted endodontically-treated mandibular first premolars were decoronated 1.0 mm coronal to the buccal cemento-enamel juncti...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study is to evaluate, in vitro, the thickness of immediate dentin sealing (IDS) materials on full crown preparations and its effect on the fracture load of a reinforced all-ceramic crown. MATERIALS AND METHODS SIXTY PREMOLARS RECEIVED FULL CROWN PREPARATION AND WERE DIVIDED INTO THE FOLLOWING GROUPS ACCORDING TO THE IDS TECHNIQUE: G1-control; G2-Clearfil SE Bo...