Posterior full coverage crowns Flashcards
Reasons for full coverage of compromised teeth
- Restores function and morphology (occlusion)
- Restoring and improving aesthetics
- Preserving remaining tooth tissues and
increasing fracture resistance - Integrating with other prosthesis
- Improves patient’s confidence & psychology
Structural integrity of endodontically treated teeth
Weakened?
1) Preparation of pulp access cavity
2) Loss of roof of the pulp chamber
3) Fragile due to loss of dentine elasticity
Structural integrity of posterior teeth
Cuspal protection required? 1. Loss of marginal ridge 2. Loss of substantial tooth structure 3. Heavily restored tooth Restored with? 1. Adhesive restorations (direct resin composite) 2. Cusp-coverage cast restorations (onlay, ¾ crown) 3. Full-coverage restorations (crowns)
Assessment/ design considerations
- Aesthetic considerations
- Adjacent/opposing Teeth
- Caries / restorations
- Periodontal Tissues
- Pulp, RCT and periapical tissue
- Is the tooth in function (occlusion)?
- Retention of the crown
- Materials
Assessment/ design considerations: aesthetic considerations
- Upper vs lower
- Premolars vs molars
- Smile line
Assessment/ design considerations: adjacent/ opposing teeth
- Orientation /Drifted teeth
- Contact points
- Diastema / Spaces between teeth
- Crowded teeth
- Length of tooth
- Insertion path (study model)
- positioning & supraeruption of opposing teeth
Assessment/ design considerations: caries/ restorations
- Location of caries, sub/supra gingival
- Quality of existing restorations
- Secondary caries
- Interproximal and root caries
Assessment / Design Considerations: periodontal tissues
- Good oral hygiene and plaque control
- Status of disease (active/stable)
- Periodontal attachment (no or min pockets)
- No or min mobility of tooth
- Alveolar bone level (radiograph)
- Crown / root ratio (radiograph)
Assessment / Design Considerations: occlusion
- Facet or wear on teeth (localised or
generalised) - Working or nonworking interferences
- Contact of teeth on both sides
- Canine or Group guided lateral movement
- The distance and deviation between CR/ICP
Assessment / Design Considerations: pulp, RCT and periapical lesions
- Periapical lesions
- Quality of root canal treatments
- Length, configuration and direction of roots
“Pulpal death” following crown preparation
- Average of 6 - 20% of prepared teeth
- Aggressive insult to the tooth, dentine and
odontoblasts - Thermal damage
- Local anaesthesia
-due to adrenaline in LA reducing blood flow to pulp - Desiccation
-living tissues will die if dry - Bacterial contamination
Crown preparation: shoulder
A 1.2mm shoulder crown preparation on a
posterior tooth leaves
≤ 0.7mm remaining dentine thickness
(0.7mm in 50 % of maxillary molars and < 0.7mm in all other premolars and molars)
Major risk of crown
Loss of vitality
Assessment/ design considerations: retention of the crown
- Shape of tooth (possible // axial walls)
- Occlusal morphology
- Tooth occ-ging length
- Path of insertion (inclined teeth)
design considerations: materials of the crown
Balancing function and aesthetics
- Full Metal (FGC)
- minimal tooth reduction
- least aesthetic
- can be adjusted intra-orally
- least abrasive to opposing teeth
- high survival rate long term - Metal-Ceramic (PFM)
- metal core
- extensive buccal tooth reduction
- aesthetics at cost of tooth tissue
- only metal component can be adjusted intra-orally - All Ceramic
- high strength ceramic core
- most aesthetic
- low edge strength
- requires extensive reduction
- intra-oral adjustment not possible
Principles of tooth preparation
Schillingburg
- Preservation of tooth structure
- Retention and resistance
- Structural durability
- Marginal integrity
- Preservation of periodontium