Indirect Composite Posterior Restorations: Conservative and Predictable Approach for Vital and Not-Vital Teeth

Continuing Education Credits:
1 Continuing Education Unit (CEU)

Course Presenter(s):
Prof. Francesco M. Mangani, MD, DDS


Date Added:
06/07/2018

Course Description:

Nowadays the maintenance of “a nice smile” represents the main desire of our patients and the request for tooth coloured restorations is very high. Predictable and repeatable results can be achieved through materials and clinical practices that, on one hand, preserve the original structure of the compromised tooth and, on the other hand, involve a very low biologic price. New technologies for the enamel-dentin adhesion and the continuous evolution of more sophisticated esthetic materials (composite resins and porcelains) allow the effective reaching of verifiable and predictable results. Technologies and materials have to follow an operative approach that strictly involves operative steps which have been carefully codified referring to the materials typology used from time to time. This lecture aims to point out the relevant guidelines in indirect techniques for esthetic restorations using composite resins in order to reach a correct and standardized final clinical result when restoring both vital and not-vital posterior teeth.

Learning Objectives:

• A. To understand the biology in enamel and dentin adhesion
• B. To understand the relevant guidelines in applying indirect techniques for minimally invasive composite resin restorations
• C. To understand the differences in restoring indirectly to vital and non-vital teeth.