9/25: Restoration of Extensively Damaged Vital Tooth Flashcards
- What are the central core guidelines?
a. Pulp and 1 mm dentin think surrounding layer should be preserved
- According to the central core guidelines, the retentive features should NOT be cut deeper than
a. 1.5 mm at cervical line or central fossa
- Deeper caries should be filled with
Base
- What happens or the Central core (Pulp chamber) as we age
a. Shrinks and recedes
- What are the 5 categories involved in decision making?
a. Deciding on type of restoration
b. Using defects as retentive features
c. Pin placement and retention
d. Base and cores
e. Tx plan procedure
- If you have extensive peripheral destruction, what restoration should you do?
a. Full crown
- Less destructive central lesion with isthmus destruction greater than 1⁄2 intercuspal width, you should do what restoration?
a. Inlay or onlay
- Large central lesion, with more than 50% of tooth structure gone and loss of cuspal support, what restoration should you do?
a. Full crown and possible build-up
- If you combined central and peripheral destruction, what should you do?
a. Build-up and crown
b. Possible RCT, build-up, crown
c. Maybe RCT, post, and crown
- When would you decide if a RCT is needed?
a. Pulp exposure
b. Post is needed for retention of build up
- Often a tooth preparation will need to be modified by adding retentive features to increase
a. Retention and resistance
- What kind of modifications can you make?
a. Re-orienting sloping
b. Grooves
c. Box forms
d. Adding pins with build-up
- Are there times where leaving a tooth without a build-up can help with retention?
a. Yes
- What can we do to increase resistance form with less than ideal tooth structure remaining?
a. Reduced TOC of axial walls
b. Grooves
c. Box form
d. Increase wall height
- How can you increase wall height?
a. Finish line more apical
b. Pin-retained core
c. Crown-lengthening
d. Orthodontic extrusion ← not intrusion
- How should you reshape axial walls for reduced TOC?
a. Reduce cervical 1⁄2 to make taper smaller
- Changing the slope wall after a cusp fracture or caries removal can improve
Retention
- How should you alter the sloped wall?
a. Break slope into vertical and horizontal components
- What happens if you convert a sloped wall into 1 single vertical compartment?
a. Weakens tooth and endangers vital core
- If you have >3mm vertical wall length apical to the fractured cusp,
a. Facial shoulder with axial wall reduction leaves adequate wall length for resistance form
- How should grooves be placed?
a. Parallel to the long axis
- What are the required dimensions for grooves?
a. 1mm wide and deep
b. 0.5-1 mm away from finish line
c. Spaced around the tooth
- In what kind of prep should grooves be placed?
a. Short wall prep
- What do the proximal grooves do to the arc of rotation?
a. Shorten radius