dontic treatment is compounded by the necessity of utilizing an indirect approach, where fabrication occurs extraorally at the dental laboratory and the completed restorations are subsequently retrofitted in the oral cavity. One fundamental aspect in the fabrication of indirect restorations is the procurement of an accurate impression from which a refractory model can be created to precisely re...

Figure 2. Hot melt adhesive-made flexible cast. The use of flexible casts and dies for the chairside fabrication of interim restorations has been reported to overcome the drawbacks of the direct technique and provide a safe and biocompatible fabrication process. Because of the elasticity of these casts, removing the interim restoration after complete setting is easy, and the integrity of the ca...

Currently, minimally invasive restorations could be made in dentistry applying adhesive materials and adhesion principles to the dental structures. Following this philosophy, endodontic interventions have been avoided largely, preserving hard tissues, maintaining vitality. Advances biologically favorable bioactive enabled clinicans induce repair regeneration of tissues. Such are primarily used ...

There is an increasing interest in “digital” restorative dentistry with the recent introduction of new scanning devices for the fabrication of chairside and off-site restorations. The chairside model-free/ impression-free systems include CEREC® (Sirona Dental Systems, Charlotte, NC) and the newly introduced E4D (D4D Technologies, LLC, Richardson, TX). These two technologies allow the clinician ...

There is a great diversity of restorative materials and techniques for deciduous molars with significant coronal destruction, including resin composite restorations and biologic restorations (portions of natural teeth). By using 4 evaluation methods, this study aimed at longitudinally evaluating the effectiveness of restorations in the deciduous molars of a patient having high caries activity, ...

There has been dramatic progression in the adhesion of dental adhesives and resins to enamel and dentin in the 40 years since Buonocore1 introduced the technique of etching enamel with phosphoric acid to improve adhesion to enamel. The first dental adhesives bonded resins to enamel only, with little or no dentin adhesion. Subsequent generations have dramatically improved bond strength to dentin...

UNLABELLED Prosthetic-restorative approach for the restoration of tooth wear. Case report OBJECTIVE This article presents a case report of combined prosthetic-adhesive rehabilitation in a patient with a generalized tooth wear. METHODS A combined treatment adhesive - prosthetic was proposed to a male patient of 65 years old having a clinically significant tooth wear, with dentine exposure an...