Mastering Direct Restorations: Structural Management, Cracks, and Fiber Reinforcement
What You Will Learn
For individual teeth, restorative choices are driven by many factors, but more than anything else, it is by the presence or absence of cracks and/or endodontic treatment, and the amount of remaining tooth structure. By carefully managing tooth structure, and with the use of composite resin, strategically laminated continuous UHMWPE fiber and discontinuous short fiber composite, we can create a new class of direct restoration that better manage tensile forces, resists and deflects cracks and lessens the effects of polymerization shrinkage on remaining tooth structure. These techniques have changed the way I see teeth.
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👉 Strategies for managing and preserving the structural integrity of teeth we treat.
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👉 Science-based evidence and techniques for crack dissection.
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👉 The importance of peripheral tooth structure in restorative success.
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👉 How and Why Ribbond studies are not all in agreement and the technique that will maximize success with continuous fiber-reinforcement.
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👉 Continuous and Short Fiber materials are not interchangeable: Learn the differences and the best indications for each material.