Digitally designed reduction guide to correct proclined anterior teeth: An aid before fabricating trial restorations.

Restoring teeth with ceramic laminate veneers is most often an additive procedure. However, when proclined anterior teeth are being treated, a misfitting silicone matrix will lead to inaccurate trial restorations, affecting evaluation of the definitive esthetic result and leading to inaccurate definitive preparations. Using the digital technology, a 3-dimensionally printed reduction guide can be used to remove the proclined areas as the first step before trial restorations.

Use of the ditramax system to communicate esthetic specifications to the laboratory.

Prosthetic restoration of the anterior teeth is a major esthetic challenge. Esthetic treatment consists of creating pleasantly proportioned teeth and integrating them harmoniously into the patient's gingiva, lips, and face. The communication of clinical data to the laboratory is critical to the success of any esthetic treatment.

A new concept in restorative dentistry: LIFEDT-light-induced fluorescence evaluator for diagnosis and treatment: part 2 - treatment of dentinal caries.

Aim: A new and innovative therapeutic concept using a light-induced fluorescence evaluator for diagnosis and treatment (LIFEDT) of dental caries based on the imaging and autofluorescence of dental tissues is proposed. The aims of this series of in vivo experiments are to compare and analyze the brightness variations of sound dentin and active and arrested carious dentin illuminated with an intraoral LED camera and to determine if this new device could be helpful in daily practice to discriminate between caries and sound dentin.

Methods And Materials: A new intraoral LED camera that emits visible blue light was used in this in vivo study to illuminate and photograph 15 teeth at high magnification.

A new concept in restorative dentistry: light-induced fluorescence evaluator for diagnosis and treatment. Part 1: Diagnosis and treatment of initial occlusal caries.

Aim: The objective of this in vivo experiment is to propose an innovative therapeutic concept using a light-induced fluorescence evaluator for diagnosis and treatment (LIFEDT) that is based on the imaging and autofluorescence of dental tissues.

Background: Processes with the aim of diagnosing carious lesions in the initial stage with optimum sensitivity and specificity employ a wide variety of technologies, but like the conventional diagnosis tools, they remain either inefficient or too subjective.

Technique: This experiment evaluated a fluorescence light-induced camera that illuminates tooth surfaces within an excitation radiation band of light with a wavelength of 450 nm and facilitates a high magnification image.

Minimally invasive dentistry using sonic and ultra-sonic devices in ultraconservative Class 2 restorations.

Aim: Within the context of minimally invasive dentistry this article describes the sonic and ultrasonic cavity preparation techniques and assesses their advantages and disadvantages, clinical difficulties of their use, and offers a statement about these devices.

Background: Ultra-conservative Class 2 restorative techniques require the use of devices such as sonic and the new ultrasonic preparation systems. These systems, featuring a series of sonic and new ultra-sonic inserts, allow for the fabrication of preventive preparations on proximal surfaces without injuring the adjacent proximal surface or damaging the marginal ridge.

One-year clinical evaluation of two resin composites, two polymerization methods, and a resin-modified glass ionomer in non-carious cervical lesions.

Aim: The aim of this study was to examine clinically relevant data on four restorative procedures for non-carious cervical lesions using United States Public Health Service (USPHS)-compatible clinical and photographic criteria and to compare different methods of analyzing clinical data.

Methods And Materials: Fourteen patients with at least one or two pairs of non-carious lesions under occlusion and a mean age of 50 were enrolled in this study. A total of 56 restorations (14 with each material) were placed by three experienced, calibrated dental practitioners.