PORCELAIN & COMPOSITE INLAYS & ONLAYS – Estetic Posterior Restorations

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Preface This book is about choices – alternatives to con­ventional posterior amalgam restorations. The evolution of dental materials has provided den­tistry with a variety of solutions to the problem of carious or discolored posterior teeth. For cen­turies now, dental amalgam has been the gener­ai standard by which dentists and materials have been measured. In recent years the practice of routinely restoring teeth with amalgam has again been questioned, but, regardless of any contro­versy about the possible effects of mereury, to­day we can offer our patients choices to consider when we resto re their posterior teeth. This book therefore provides possible solutions for the mil­lions of people who would like an answer to the question, “Are there any alternatives?” The concept of using porcelain as an intra­ coronai restoration is not really new, but in the past such restorations weré not particularly sue­cessful, predominantly because of the lack of an effective cementation medium. The ability to etch porcelain with hydrofluoric acid (as is used for porcelain laminate veneers), coupled with the dual-bonding effect of composite resin ;to enamel and dentin, has made this intracoronal restoration and the heat-cured indirect compos­ite resin restoration definitive options, espeeially compared to the compromises faced with amal­gam, gold, direct composite resin restorations, and full-eoverage restorations. This text is a procedural atlas on the state of the art of this exciting new technique. It also offers a look at the future trends involving CADI CAM and other computer modalities.