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Handouts First Week Short Version
Leithey Alameldin
This involves:
• Avoiding lengthy appointments. (Short
appointments no more than 30 mins.)
• Morning appointments.
• Atraumatic technique.
• Pain-free injections.
• Being calm and assuring to the patient.
• Simplify the procedure.
Objectives of
prosthodontic treatment
Restoration of
Elimination of Preservation of
function and lost
disease health
teeth
Clinical examination
• Do a quick extra-oral examination.
• When planning a case with esthetic makeover pay
attention to the extraoral examination.
• Ask the patient to open up, observe the maximal mouth
opening.
• Normally it should be around 45-50 mm.
• If less than 40 mm consider a limited mouth opening.
• Examine the TMJ. Patients with sever TMJ dysfunction
can not have lengthy appointments.
Abutment evaluation
Root configuration
Roots which are wider bocco-lingually than mesiodistal
can handle occlusal load more than conical roots.
Treatment Plan
2. Periodontal phase:
* Scaling / root planning. * Perio surgery. *Improved
patient homecare.
3. Restorative phase:
* Operative. * Fixed prosthodontics. *Removable
prosthodontics.
4. Maintenance phase:
* Periodontal. *Restorative. *Radiographs.
Cantilever bridge
• Do an anatomical preparation.
• Removal of adequate amount of tooth structure.
• Enough occlusal or incisal clearance.
• Roundation of all line- and point-angles.
• No sharp lines or irregularities.
• Well definite finish line.
Not only for marginal integrity, but for structural durability of the
restoration
• Respect the Anatomy.
• Prepare the facial surface of anterior teeth on two plains.
• Do the functional cusp bevel in posterior teeth.
• Preserve as much tooth structure as possible.
• Presence of optimal tooth height.
• Even though we bond most of these restorations, they have to
have adequate retention on their own.
• Preserve enamel for resin bonding.
• Don’t make your ceramic bulk over 2 mm.
Finish line
0.7 - 1 mm Shoulder (Radial shoulder)
Equi-gingival or 0.5 mm sub-gingival
Smooth – continuous - even thickness
Follow gingival contour
Axial reduction
1 – 1.5 mm
Facial surface on two plains
Smooth – Rounded – No sharp lines
Give adequate clearance for centric contacts on the palatal of upper
and the facial of lowers
Incisal reduction
1- 1.5 mm
Slight palatal inclination of the incisal edge
Smooth – Rounded – No sharp lines
Finish line
0.6 - 1 mm Shoulder (Radial shoulder)
Supra-gingival or equi-gingival
Smooth – continuous - even thickness
Follow gingival contour
Axial reduction
1 mm
Facial surface on one plain
Parallel to long axis of the tooth
Smooth – Rounded – No sharp lines
Occlusal reduction
1 - 1.5 mm
Planar reduction – Functional cusp bevel
Smooth – Rounded – No sharp lines