Fix Pros Flashcards
What are the aims of fixed prosthodontics?
It ranges from restoration of a single tooth to rehabilitation of the entire occlusion.
The main aims are:
- Restore biological health
- Restore function
- Restore aesthetics
What are the two categories of restorations?
- Direct - activated in mouth
- Indirect - prepared in labs or milling machines (think outside mouth and cemented in)
What are the two types of indirect restorations?
- Intra-coronal - inlays or onlays
- Extra-coronal - crowns or veneers
Why would you choose a intra-coronal restoration rather than a direct material?
- Need for stronger material
- Difficulty with getting appropriate contact with direct restoration
What is the difference between the cavity preperation for a direct restoration vs indirect intra-coronal restoration?
Cavity prep can not have undercuts
What are the functions of a crown?
- Reproduces the morphology of the damaged coronal portion
- Restore function
- Protect remaining tooth structure
What are the indications for crowns?
- Protection of weak tooth structure
- To re-establish the occlusion
- Modification of tooth shape
- Replacement of missing tooth structure
- As retainers
- Aesthetics
What are the contraindications for crowns?
- Poor oral hygiene and active dental disease
- Cost
- Patient’s age - young patients who have large pulp chambers which may be exposed
- Excessive removal of tooth structure
What are some of the considerations for a crown selection
- Occlusion
- Endodontic status/vitality
- Other teeth requiring treatment
- Future of tooth
- Future dentition
- Restorability of tooth/teeth
What are the parts of a dental bridge?
- Abutment - a tooth that serves to support or retain the bridge
- Pontic - an artificial tooth/teeth on a prosthesis that replaces a missing natural tooth
What are the indications for a veneer?
- Diastema closure
- Alter shape, contour, position
- Alter tooth color
- Mask tooth surface anomalies
What are primary functions of a post?
- Retain the core
- Stabilise the core
- Obturation of the post canal
What are the general checks before commencing fixed pros.
- There a control of active disease - periodontal, caries, occlusal
- Ensure the patient can maintain good oral health
- Occlusal analysis
WHat are the 5 key principles of crown prep?
- Preservation of tooth structure - preserve remaining tooth structure
- Retention and resistance form
- Structural durability - enough thickness of the crown material so it doesn’t fail - each material requires different thickness
- Marginal integrity - utilise finish lnes - bevels, chamfers, shoulders - remember bad margin = caries, gingivitis and perio - to recreate the appropriate finish design - use the right bur! easy peasy (remember to just use half of the bur so you dont create undermined enamel) - burs come in different sizes, so the size of the bur will dictate the width of the finish line
- Preservation of periodontium - dont fuck up the periodontium - put your margins supragingival ideally
What is retention and resistance form?
- Retention prevents removal of the restoration along the path of insertion
- Resistance prevents dislodgement of the restoration by forces in an apical or oblique direction (rocking)
How do we achieve appropriate retention and resistance form in crown prep?
- Appropriate taper - the more parallel the walls are - the more resistance you have - combined angle of 6 degrees is optimal (3 degrees deviation at the crownal part comparing to the base of the tooth on each side, 3+3=6)
- MORE SURFACE AREA - think big teeth retain crowns better - more crown height and width
- Path of insertion - NO UNDERCUTS, NO NEIGHBOURING TEETH TILTING
How many visits usually does a standard crown prep and insertion take?
Usually - 3 visits
What happens during the first visit of indirect restoration process?
Visit 1: Examination, construction of study models, shade selection, finalisation of treatment plan and consent
What happens during the second visit of indirect restoration process?
Visit 2: Putty key, confirmation of shade selection, crown prep, secondary impression, provisional restoration
What happens during the third visit of indirect restoration process?
Visit 3: removal of provisional and insertion of final crown
What are your options in terms of temporary crown?
- Custom made temporary crowns using protemp4 for example
- Preformed crowns - select appropriate size and Bob is your uncle
What are the desirable properties of a cement?
- Adhesion to enamel and dentine
- Adhesion to corwn
- Biocompatability
- Adequate compressive strength
- Thin film thickness
- Rapid setting time
- Insoluble in oral fluids
- Transparent colour
- Anticariogenic
Why do we use alloys rather than pure metals?
Alloys have superior physical and mechanical properties in the oral environment vs pure metals
What are some of the desirable clinical properties of dental alloys?
- Grain size - polishibiltiy
- Phase structure
- Yield strength - how is it to bend
- Hardness - to resist occlusal forces
- Elastic modulus - stiffness or rigidity of the alloy
- Colour
- Corrosion - IT BETTER NOT DO THIS
- Porcelain-bonding properties
- Ease of casting
- Cost
- Ease of soldering or joining
What are the three classifications of dental alloys by composition?
- High Noble Alloys - noble metal content of above 60% and gold of above 40%
- Noble Alloy - Noble metal content of below 25% with no gold required
- Base metal - Noble metal content well below 25% with no gold required
What are the properties of high noble alloys?
- Good biocompatibility
- Good adhesion between alloy and ceramic
- Good casting accurate for margins
- Less creep at high temperature
- Good physical properties
- Firing temperature close to ceramica
- More costly than Noble and base metal alloys
What are the properties of base metal alloys?
- Cheaper than noble alloys
- Better strength than Noble Alloys
- More chemically reactive
- Hypersensitivity potential
- Higher shrinkage on cooling
- Thicker oxide layer so adhesion to ceramics may be weaker if not processed correctly
What are the requirements for metal-ceramic systems?
- High melting range of the alloy than the ceramic to resist sintering temperature
- Low fusing temperature of the ceramic
- Strong bond to porcelain
- Adequate stiffness and strength of the alloy to provide good support for the ceramic layer
- High sag resistance (no change in shape)
- No discoloration of porcelain
- Compatible coefficients of thermal expansion of the ceramic and metal - make sure that the materials do not expand or constrict too much
What are the 3 systems in high noble metal alloys? And what are their advantages and disadvantages?
- Gold-Platinum-Paladium - easy to adjust and finish but is VERY EXPENSIVE comperative to others
- Gold-Paladium-Silver - a bit harder but can change colour
- Gold-paladium - great properties overall but costs a lot