Many dental practitioners do not use adhesive bridges because of concerns over high failure rates. Techniques for these restorations should be based on the fundamental principles of bridge design which require rigid, accurately fitting frameworks and careful control of the occlusion. The abutments generally require little if any tooth preparation. Greater security will result from more extensiv...

aSenior Lecturer, Department of Oral Rehabilitation. bStudent, Master Dental Technology program, Department of Oral Rehabilitation. (J Prosthet Dent 2009;101:73-74) The treatment of choice for a partially edentulous patient is placement of a fixed partial denture supported by either teeth or implants.1 However, when implants are contraindicated or when the remaining abutment teeth cannot suppor...

Impression techniques for implant restorations can be implant level or abutment level impressions with open tray or closed tray techniques. Conventional implant-abutment level impression techniques are predictable for maximizing esthetic outcomes. Restoration of the implant traditionally requires the use of the metal or plastic impression copings, analogs, and laboratory components. Simplifying...

The goal of this study was to explore an innovative approach to single-tooth replacement using an individually custom-fabricated, root-analog, hybrid dental implant, in the esthetic zone, to avoid the microgap and micromovements between the implant and abutment. Moreover, the use of burs to prepare the implant recipient site is not necessary in this technique, reducing the bone removal, heating...

background: the fi nal position of the abutment changes with the amount of tightening torque. this could eventually lead to loss of passivity and marginal misfi t of prostheses. the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of three different tightening torques on the marginal adaptation of 3-unit cement-retained implant-supported fi xed dental prostheses (fdps). materials and methods: two i...

The gap between a metal crown and an abutment tooth often leads to troubles such as secondary caries, pulpitis, periodontitis and so on. We expected that newly developed adhesive resins which adhere both dental alloy and tooth structure can minimize such troubles if they were used as setting materials of prosthetics. In this study, the degree of marginal leakage of adhesive resins was compared ...

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM The mechanical properties of zirconia suggest that it might serve as a material for abutment crowns for partial removable dental prostheses (RDPs). Only limited clinical evidence is available for the use of ceramics as abutment crowns. PURPOSE The purpose of this retrospective clinical study was to evaluate the outcome of veneered zirconia single crowns in abutment teeth ...