Composite images of upper front teeth--judgment of attractiveness and gender-specific correlation.

Unlabelled: The esthetic appearance of upper front teeth strongly depends on color, shape, size, width-to-height ratio, and position of teeth. In the past, these single esthetic aspects had been analyzed separately and not as a whole. Thus, the objective of this current study is to investigate the perception of the esthetics of upper front teeth whose image had been manipulated by composite photoimaging.

Examples of model-free implant restorations using Cerec inLab 4.0 software.

This case report demonstrates two ways to fabricate model-free implant restorations with the Cerec inLab 4.0 software. Because the patient, a woman with a history of periodontal disease, did not wish to have a removable partial denture, implant therapy was planned for the restoration of her edentulous areas 14/15 and 24/25.

Five-year clinical evaluation of all-ceramic posterior FDPs made of In-Ceram Zirconia.

The aim of this prospective study was to evaluate the clinical outcomes of three and four-unit posterior fixed dental prostheses (FDPs) made of In-Ceram Zirconia. Twenty FDPs were inserted in 15 patients. Over a mean observation period of 74.

Survival probability of zirconia-based fixed dental prostheses up to 5 yr: a systematic review of the literature.

The purpose of this systematic review was to calculate the 5-yr survival rates of all-ceramic zirconia-based fixed dental prostheses (FDPs) and to analyze technical and biological complications. An electronic literature search of MEDLINE (PubMed) was conducted independently by three reviewers to identify clinical studies from 1999 to 2009 and was completed by a manual search. Keywords and inclusion and exclusion criteria were well-defined.