The clinical success of adhesive composite-resin restorations has changed the way that dentists treatment plan and treat periodontally mobile teeth. While adhesive composite resin provides for strong, durable, and esthetic single-tooth restorations, when placed to join teeth together, these materials—which are chemically brittle by nature—are susceptible to fracture and are not durable. When su...

Background: Modern restorative dentistry offers many methods of restoring the carious teeth. The advancements in adhesive dentistry have brought significant changes in the treatment of caries. Dental composite formulations have been continuously evolving ever since BISGMA was introduced to dentistry by Boven in 1962. The composite materials can be divided into direct and indirect resin composit...

BACKGROUND Bleaching the discoloured teeth may affect the tooth/composite interface. The aim of this in vitro experimental study was to evaluate the effect of vital tooth bleaching on microleakage of existent class V composite resin restorations bonded with three dental bonding agents. METHODS Class V cavities were prepared on buccal surfaces of 72 intact, extracted human anterior teeth with ...

Reattachment of tooth fragment is a simple, conservative, and noninvasive procedure, and it is the most currently acceptable treatment option. This article presents management of two accidentally damaged maxillary incisors using direct composite resin restoration and fractured tooth fragment. With the advancements in adhesive dentistry, tooth fragment reattachment procedure has become simpler a...

This article reports on the use of a natural tooth crown to repair substantial defects caused by caries. A 50 y old woman wished to have a mandibular left-side third molar extracted. Concurrently, the patient voiced concerns about the metal collar of a premolar. It was decided to extract the third molar and to use this tooth to perform an autologous tooth crown transplant at the upper second pr...

A 51-year-old woman who worked as a company sales representative was concerned about the deteriorating condition of her anterior teeth. On presentation, the appearance of her anterior teeth was less than ideal, and she requested treatment to improve the situation. Her medical history was noncontributory, but intraoral examination revealed excessive diastema between the maxillary central incisor...

This report describes a case of a 7 years old girl who suffered from complicated crown fracture of right mandibular central incisor because of a bicycle accident. For the tooth partial pulpotomy with calcium hydroxide, capping was performed in order to achieve apexogenesis and the tooth was restored with a double-seal of glass ionomer cement and composite resin. The patient was reviewed over 8 ...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to determine the effect of surface treatments such as tooth reduction and extending the etching time on microtensile bond strength (μTBS) of composite resin to normal and fluorotic enamel after microabrasion. MATERIALS AND METHODS Fifty non-carious anterior teeth were classified into two groups of normal and fluorotic (n=25) using Thylstrup and Fejerskov index (TFI...

Background. Calomera littoralis is a Palearctic species, widely distributed in Europe; inhabiting predominantly its Atlantic, Mediterranean and Black Sea coastlines. Methods. Its phylogeography on the Balkan Peninsula and on the north-western Black Sea coast was inferred using a 697 bp long portion of the mitochondrial COI gene, amplified from 169 individuals collected on 43 localities. Results...

background and aims. the mechanical properties of fiber-reinforced composite fixed partial dentures (fpds) are affected by fiber impregnation. the aim of this in vitro study was to compare the fracture resistance of composite fixed partial dentures reinforced with pre-impregnated and non-impregnated fibers. materials and methods. groups (n=5) of three-unit fiber-reinforced composite fpds (23 mm...