Restorative Dentistry

Additive bonding approaches to managing root-filled, cracked or weak teeth

Dentists use the euphemistic term ‘tooth preparation’ when providing a crown or onlay in their preferred ‘restorative’ material. However, in reality, most ‘preparations’ involve reducing the residual...

Journey for a smile: multidisciplinary management of oligodontia. Case report

A 29-year-old male patient from Kandy, Sri Lanka presented to our clinic requesting treatment for what he felt was an unpleasant smile, and replacement of missing teeth. He was an undergraduate...

Grey areas in restorative dentistry: Part 3. clinical decision making and care planning

It is important to remember that dentistry is ‘the art or profession of a dentist’1 and that much of clinical dentistry is subjective rather than objective. Indeed, Fish and Coles2 consider clinical...

Grey Areas in Restorative Dentistry: Part 2. The Diagnosis: Dental Pain

This process begins with the presenting condition of the patient. We can hear patients when we are told a history of the complaint, but if we listen carefully and ask appropriate questions, they will...

Immediate dental implants: when and how?

Four implant placement protocols have been introduced by the International Team of Implantology (ITI) outlining the timing of implant placement and loading protocols. ITI classifications are detailed...

Grey areas in restorative dentistry: part 1. What are the aims of treatment?

Following on from its diagnosis, the aim of treatment will clearly be the management of the presenting complaint, examples of which are shown in Table 1..

Innovative Paradigms and Established Strategies in Tooth Revitalization: A Review

Revitalization was first studied by Nygaard-Ostby6 and Nygaard-Ostby and Hjortdal,7 who induced bleeding from the peri-apical tissues into the canal space of teeth. Iwaya et al8 further developed the...

Preserving the vital pulp in the permanent dentition: a simplified guide to indirect pulp capping

Two cases are presented. Case 1 shows the management of a carious tooth following the European Society of Endodontology guidelines6 with selective caries removal. Case 2 follows the American...

An overview of the resin-infiltration technique

ICON (DMG, Hamburg, Germany) is the only material available for resin infiltration. The system consists of: ICON Etch (15% hydrochloric acid), ICON Dry (99% ethanol) and ICON Infiltrant...