Restoration of Extensively Damaged Vital Teeth Flashcards
According to central core guidelines the pulp and ___mm thick of surrounding ____ should be preserved
1mm; dentin
According to central core guidelines, retentive features should not be cut deeper than:
1.5 mm at cervical line or central fossa (2mm)
According to central core guidelines, the auxillary retentive features should ideally be kept in:
“safe zone”
According to central core guidelines, for caries removal, deeper areas should be:
filled with base
Avoid excessive tooth removal in the name of:
retention
Describe what happens to the pulp chamber as we age?
shrinks
List the five categories to consider in decision making:
- Type of restoration
- Using defects as retentive features
- Pin placement & retention
- Bases & cores
- Tooth preparation procedures
What questions should you ask yourself to determine the type of restorations to use when LARGE DECAY has destroyed tooth structure? (5)
- WHERE is the decay?
- How much tooth structure is remaining?
- WHERE is the remaining tooth structure?
- Can I restore this?
- Should I restore this?
Extensive peripheral damage =
full crown
What restoration would you choose based on the following image?
full crown (extensive peripheral damage)
Isthmus destruction greater than 1/2 intercuspal width=
Inlay or onlay
More than 50% of tooth structure is gone an floss of cusps support=
crown (likely a core build up too)
Less destructive central lesion =
inlay or onlay
Large central lesion =
build up & crown
Combined central and peripheral destruction =
core build up and crown (possible RCT/post)
When would you decide you needed root canal treatment with combined central and peripheral destruction?
- if pulp is exposed
- if post is needed for retention of build up
Often, a tooth preparation will need to be modified by adding retentive features to:
increase retention and improve resistance form
List some examples of retentive features used to modify a prep:
- re-orinetation of sloping surface
- adding grooves
- adding box forms
- adding pins with a build up
T/F: There are times when leaving a crown prep without a build up can help with retention too. Sometimes, you need to leave it ugly
True
What can we do to increase resistance form with “less-than-ideal” tooth structure remaining?
- reduce TOC of axial walls
- add grooves
- add box forms
- increase wall height
What are ways to increase wall height of a prep, in order to increase resistance form with less-than-ideal tooth structure remaining?
- place finish line more apical
- pin retained core
- crown-lengthening
- orthodontic extrusion
Increased axial reduction in the cervical 1/2 of the preparation wall will:
reduce taper and create more retention and greater resistance form
Grooves should be placed ____ when trying to increase retention & resistance
parallel to the long axis of the tooth
Grooves should be placed parallel to the long axis of the tooth with the following requirements: (3)
1) atleast 1mm wide and deep
2) 0.5 to 1.0mm away from the finish line
3) spaced around the tooth
Proximal grooves ____ the radius of the arc of rotation
shorten
Walls of a groove or a box are best placed ___ when in a short prep with minimal occlusal clearance.
perpendicular to the displacing forces
- remove caries
- convert caries removal into a box form by squaring walls
- not needed on intact walls
- box should be well into dentin (deep enough) to resist displacing forces
What is being described? What is this used for?
Box form- used for retentionW
Why should the box form be placed well into the dentin?
to resist displacing forces
Box forms can aid in:
retention & resistance
When two boxes are needed, less than 180 degrees of tooth circumference remains.
Why is this significant and what should you do in this situation?
Great risk for cuspal fracture; use a build up and full crown to protect against fracture
The following aid in ____.
- sloping walls
- box form
- grooves
retention
When increasing the wall height by placing the margin more apically often this is below the gingiva, however, we must:
avoid invading the biological width
When adding materials to “build up” the tooth, this can give more wall. Remember, the ___ needs to be on tooth structure and you still need a minimum of _____ of ferrule
finish line; 2-3mm
How might you remove the biological width restriction?
crown lengthening
extruding the tooth out of the bone to gain height:
orthodontic extrusion
What procedure had this effect?
crown lengthening