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Simplifying Prosthodontics in the Digital Dentistry Era

Dentistry Today

The remaining maxillary anterior teeth were prepared for veneers. Q: What was your restorative approach in this case? A: For this case, we had to replace a full crown for tooth No.

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Spear Education Announces International Speaker Line Up for Summit 2024

Dentistry Today

Rotondo, a registered prosthodontist with a passion for aesthetic dentistry, reconstructive dentistry, and implant dentistry, will explore the realm of indirect restorations and veneers. He brings a wealth of knowledge from his role as a Visiting Professor at prestigious universities and his active engagement in private practice and research.

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Predictable Approach to Indirect Mixed-Media Cosmetic Dentistry

Dentistry Today

For example, there is a difference in tooth preparations for veneer preps vs crown preps. More than 15 years ago, her anterior teeth were corrected with veneers and a resin-based fixed bridge. The retracted view shows the extreme staining of her existing anterior veneers and bridge (Nos. mm porcelain veneers.

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Three-Dimensional Facial Scanning: A New Paradigm

Dentistry Today

Visit 2: Teeth are prepared for crowns or veneers with all ideal parameters: facial reduction, occlusion reduction, and color reduction for minimal prep cases. A final 3D Facial scan with RAYFace is made and sent to the lab for fabrication of final crowns or veneers (Figures 15 to 17). J Prosthodont. REFERENCES 1. Prosthesis.

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Demystifying Computer-Assisted Design

Dentistry Today

5 to 12 restored with minimally invasive veneer restorations. This gives the patient the ability to actually see how the smile would look if the veneers were made too long, too square, and/or too full. This must be removed for veneer design. Note the yellow contour on the lingual that needed be removed for veneers.

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A Simplified Smile Enhancement and Implant Placement Using 3D Printing

Dentistry Today

This article will provide a step-by-step demonstration of a combination anterior veneer and implant case that utilized 3D printing for smile design, provisional fabrication, implant planning, and placement. Ceramic veneers would be placed on the right lateral maxillary incisor and the right central maxillary incisor.

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Why am I Experiencing Clinical Failures?

Dentistry Gone Digital

These are situations like porcelain breaking, crowns or veneers de-bonding, and spaces opening up around teeth. And once the occlusion is functionally stable, then we can do our prosthodontic treatment with great degrees of stability. All of those things are related to not having good control of the occlusion.