Management of adult periodontitis has undergone considerable change in the past decade. As understanding of the pathophysiology underlying the clinical course of the.
After an in-depth study of viscous elastomeric impression materials and their behavior, I invented the laminar impression technique (LIT) in the mid 1970s..
Provisional restorations are an important and desirable restoration in today’s practice. The advent of implant dentistry, total mouth cosmetic restorations, increased tooth life.
External resorption often creates severe bone loss that can affect prosthetic treatment planning. This is especially problematic when the area involved is in.
Many ingenious techniques have been devised for what should be a simple process of filling a root canal space. Some techniques require average.
Everything is continually changing and evolving in cosmetic dentistry. Materials and techniques seem to change every few months. And that’s not all. Cosmetic.
Help, or helpful, is defined in Webster’s Dictionary as: to contribute, to give assistance to; to further the progress or advancement; to be.
Chiche and Pinault1 describe in their text, Esthetics of Anterior Fixed Prosthodontics, the artistic and scientific principles applied to aesthetic dentistry. “Four factors.
The class III restoration is nominally a “one-surface” restoration on the proximal contacting surface of the tooth. It is generally formed with composite.
Figure 1. Completed preparation after removal of all decay. Note the extent of the preparation, especially at the distal. Figure 2. Hybridized preparation.
