The ultimate goal for an esthetic rehabilitation is the restoration of health, beauty, and function to the patient. This article illustrates a predictable system to guide the clinician with tooth preparations for porcelain veneer restorations based upon the additive diagnostic wax-up. This system promotes a preparation technique using a series of guides that direct the clinician to reduce only ...

The “biological restoration” is an excellent technique for reconstruction in young traumatized teeth, which is used as intra-root reinforcement an extracted natural tooth. This article reports a case where an 11-year-old patient had his upper incisors affected by fractures from trauma. Due to the young age of the patient, the absence of the natural tooth fragment, the major structural loss and ...

Conservative instrumentation of initial posterior approximal caries is beneficial to patients and simplifies surgical management. This article describes a minimally invasive technique for preparing Class II lesions while keeping the marginal ridge and occlusal surface intact. Eradication of caries by minimally invasive techniques and restoration of tooth form after such cavity preparation neces...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 the maxillary lateral incisor is the second most common congenitally absent tooth. there are several treatment options for replacing the missing maxillary lateral incisor, including canine substitution, tooth-supported restoration, or single-tooth implant. dental implants are an appropriate treatment option for replacing m...

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...

Options for restoring a single tooth include fixed partial denture, resin-bonded restoration and single-tooth implant. In this paper, we discuss the advantages and disadvantages of these methods and factors that must be considered when choosing between them for the replacement of a single tooth. Although in some cases a fixed partial denture is the most appropriate choice, implants have the adv...

The maxillary lateral incisor is the second most common congenitally absent tooth. There are several treatment options for replacing the missing maxillary lateral incisor, including canine substitution, tooth-supported restoration, or single-tooth implant. Dental implants are an appropriate treatment option for replacing missing maxillary lateral incisor teeth in adolescents when their dental a...

PURPOSE The emergence profile concept of an implant restoration is one of the most important factors for the esthetics and health of peri-implant soft tissue. This paper reports on two cases of gingival recontouring by the fabrication of a provisional implant restoration to produce an optimal emergence profile of a definitive implant restoration. METHODS After the second surgery, a preliminar...