Class V Restorations Flashcards
What are Class V restorations?
- Restorations involving the cervical 1/3 of the facial or lingual aspect of ANY tooth.
- Usually involves FACIAL aspect of ANTERIOR & bicuspid
What are some reasons for preforming Class V restorations?
1) Caries
2) Abrasion
3) Abfraction
4) Erosion
5) Combination of all the above
What are the causes of Cervical Caries?
1) Poor hygiene
2) Exposed roots from gingival recession
3) Defective margins on restorations
4) poor salivary flow
- Medications
- Xerostomia
- Immuno-compromised
5) Cariogenic diet
6) Irradiation
Cervical Caries:
- Commonly found below the ______.
- Can be _________ shaped.
- If CHRONIC, caries tend to be _________.
- CEJ
- irregularly
- Darker
What is Abrasion caused by?
- mechanical wear
- commonly toothbrush
- other habits
What is the appearance of Abrasion like?
- Tends to have a dished out appearance
- Can affect teeth in groups
- Shallow and smooth on both occlusal and gingival walls
- Cavo-surface edge tends to be rounded
How does abreaction affect tooth structure?
- Working & balancing interferences create LATERAL loading which breaks down the tooth structure.
- Lower pH increases rate
What is the appearance of Abfraction like?
- Tends to have sharp V-cut notching especially on incisal or occlusal wall
- Sharp leading edge is NOT ALWAYS evident in combination cases
- Doesn’t take AWAY gingiva. AKA STRESS corrosion
What is Abfraction?
- Combination of abrasion and micro fractions = STRESS CORROSION
- Occlusally related and/or habitual
- Tooth is undergoing flexural strain
- Affects single teeth (often UPPER premolars first)
- TX: light cured GIC
In Abfraction, “Stress Corrosion” is _______________
Multi-factoral
How does abreaction affect tooth structure?
- Working & balancing interferences create LATERAL loading which breaks down the tooth structure.
- Lower pH increases rate
What are examples of working and lateral imbalances?
1) lateral loading
2) teeth out of interference
Abfraction:
pH is modulated by what?
- Protective factors (saliva buffering capacity)
- Plaque control
- Diet
What are examples of working and lateral imbalances?
1) lateral loading
2) teeth out of interference
Abfraction occurs on _________ teeth (“Interferences”)
or __________ of teeth in para-functional occlusion (“Group function”)
- INDIVIDUAL
- GROUPS
After restoration is completed may consider ________ or a _________
- Occlusal equilibrium (SINGLE tooth involved)
- “SOFT” Night guard (if A LOT of teeth involved )
Gold leaf, lasts forever and can be placed under what conditions?
-Abfraction involving a single tooth
What is Erosion (Biocorrosion)
-Acid attack on teeth
- Affects teeth in groups
- -Lingual upper anteriors
- -Buccal of lowers
- Enamel appears translucent or thin
- Enamel appears “polished”
Early Erosion (Biocorrosion) starts out \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_. Abfraction will be \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.
- SHALLOW
- DEEP
What are some medical problems linked with Erosion (Biocorrosion)?
1) Gastric regurgitation
2) Anorexia/bulemia
- Pt that vomits has defects on upper teeth on lingual
3) Dietary-lemons
Causes of Stress (abfraction) ?
1) Endogenous:
a. Parafunctional
b. Occlusion
c. Deglutition
2) Exogenous:
a. Mastication
b. Habits
c. Occupations
d. Dental appliances
3) Types of stress
a. static
b. fatigue (cyclic)
Causes of Biocorrosion (chemical, biochemical and electrochemical degradation) ?
- Endogenous (acid)
a. Plaque (caries)
b. Gingival cervicular fluid
c. Gastric HCL - Exogenous (acid) ;
a. Diet
b. Occupations
c. Miscellaneous - Proteolysis:
a. Enzymatic lysis (caries)
b. Proteases (pepsin & trypsin)
c. Cercicular fluid - Electrochemical (piezoelectric effect on dentin)
Causes of Friction (wear)?
- Endogenous (attrition)
a. parafunction
b. deglutition - Endogenous (Abrasion)
a. Mastication
b. Action of the tongue - Exogenous (Abrasion)
a. Dental hygiene
b. Habits
c. Occupations
d. Dental appliances - Erosion (flow of liquids)
How do we treat these lesions?
- Do nothing
- GLUMA
- Fluoride TX and or varnishes
- ACP (Amorphous Calcium Phosphate)
- Periodontal grafting (split thickness)
- Amalgams
- GI
- Composites
- Occlusal adjustment or mouth guards
- Combination of above
Do __________ interventions first and then _________ interventions
- Chemical
- Mechanical