Restorative - Miscellaneous/mixed, crown, bridge, post, toothwear, SDA, occlusion, implant, whitening, cavity prep Flashcards
A 19-year-old patient attends you practice on a Monday morning having sustained trauma to teeth 12 and 11 on the Saturday evening. Tooth 12 is completely missing the crown and has a sub-alveolar fracture. Tooth 11 have a pulpal exposure of 2mm. Both teeth are experiencing sensitivity.
1. Discuss fours steps in the immediate management of tooth 11? (4)
- Locate the missing fragment (if patient cannot locate and querying aspiration risk then send to A&E)
- Check for soft tissue damage and radiograph if possible to assess for any other pathology
- As exposure is large and over 24hrs a direct pulp cap is not indicated must proceed to pulpotomy (and possible pulpectomy)
- Give LA, isolate tooth with rubber dam (if possible) and clean the area with saline
- Start with pulpotomy- access, remove coronal pulp to depth of 1-2mm, attempt to achieve haemostasis using cotton wool and saline
- If haemostasis achieved place CaOH in canal, seal exposed dentine with GIC and restore with composite (bandage or full restoration depending on time)
- If unable to achieve haemostasis (hyperaemic pulp- indication tooth non vital) then continue to complete pulpotomy (all coronal pulp tissue removed) and if haemostasis still unachievable proceed to full RCT (extirpation of pulp and placement of intra-canal medication until next appointment when tooth should be obturated)
Tooth 12 has a sub-alveolar fracture with crown missing and is rendered unrestorable. Why is a sub-alveolar fracture important in making the tooth unrestorable? (4)
- Poor moisture control as below gingivae
- Lack of coronal tissue for bonding or support
- subgingival margins mean that it will be hard for the patient to clean the margins and impinge on the biological width which will impact the health of the gingivae
- lack of coronal seal
Name two alternative to replace tooth 12 (unrestorable) after extraction?
Implant
Bridge resin retained
SIngle tooth RPD
A patient presents with a fractured 26 MOD amalgam. The tooth is root treated. Both buccal cusps have fractured and there is exposed GP.
1. What are the restorative options for this tooth? (2)
- Crown MCC
- Onlay with cuspal coverage
N.B non-restorative options would include extraction and prosthetic replacement or overdenture.
The root filling has been exposed for 6 months. What is your treatment and why? (2)
- Re-RCT before then restoring with new definative restoration
- GP has been exposed to the oral enviroment for more than 1-3months which is the guidance for how long GP takes to become infected.
Give 2 features of a Nayyar core? (2)
- 2-4mm of GP is rmeoved from canal and replaced with amalgam
- Retention obtained from undercut in divergent canals and pulp canal chamber
Name two restorative material in dentistry that can bond amalgam to a tooth? (2)
- GI
- RMGI
How would you bond composite to a tooth? Give two dental materials and examples? (2)
- First prepare the tooth surface with a etch (35% phosphoric acid). This removes the smear layer, opens dentine tubules and exposes collagen network for penetration and micromechanical retention.
- Then place primer and adhesive (prime and bond). Primer usually HEMA (acts as a coupling agent with a hydrophillic end to bond to the dentine and a hydrophobic end which bonds to the resin. And adhesive usually mixture of Bis-GMA and HEMA resins (penetrates primed dentine and forms a micromechanical bond via molecular entanglement with exposed collagen to form the hydrid layer of collagen plus resin
Which bond strength is stronger between amalgam and composite? (1)
Composite
The patient has a large amalgam restoration replaced in composite due to secondary caries. Radiograph was taken a week ago at the placement of the composite and no caries or pathology are visible.
1. Give 5 causes of the transient sensitivity to thermal stimuli and biting that they are experiencing?
What are the possible causes of sensitivity
- Deep restoration close to the pulp with no lining material placed
- Pulpal exposure
- Tooth preparation irritates the pulp (not enough coolant)
- Inadequate curing of resin which leads to soggy material irritating the pulp
- Restoration high in occlusion
- Cracked tooth
- Debond or microleakage as a result of poor moisture control
- Debond or microleakage as a result of polymerization contraction stress
Give 5 restorative management features that could prevent transient sensitivity to thermal stimuli and biting that they are experiencing from occurring?
- Placement of lining material for deep restoration to reduce irritation to pulp
- If expose pulp then pulp cap
- Ensure high speed is used with copious water irrigation and consider caries removal with excavator or slow speed for deep caries
- Cure in 2mm increments to prevent uncured material and soggy bottom from irritating the pulp
- Use articulating paper to check occlusion and reduce as required
- Ensure good moisture control with dam or cotton wool
- Place smaller increments to reduce polymerisation contraction stress or use indirect restoration
- Cracked tooth, difficult to diagnose but can use tooth sleuth, consider cuspal coverage.
Shown a PA radiograph of impacted 38 and 37 with caries present.
1. Patient is experiencing a dull throbbing pain in the region give a differential diagnosis for what could be keeping the patient up at night?
- Irreversible pulpitis
- Pericornitis
- Otitis media (ear ache)
- TMJ
A patient presents with a discoloured anterior tooth. It is not sensitive or symptomatic, but he reports he sustained a blow to it a couple years ago and the discolouration is getting worse.
1. How would you go about finding the aetiology of the discolouration?
- Thorough history and examination
- Pulp testing
- Compare current colour with older clinical photographs
A patient presents with a discoloured anterior tooth. It is not sensitive or symptomatic, but he reports he sustained a blow to it a couple years ago and the discolouration is getting worse.
2. What special investigations would you undertake?
- Radiographs
- Pulp testing
- TTP
- Precussion note
What treatment options are there for discolouration?
- Leave and monitor
- Vital or non-vital bleaching
- Composite veneer
- Porcelain veneer
- Microabrasion
Patient presents with MCC in hand from upper central.
1. What features of a tooth will make it more likely to make it successful/unsuccessful for treatment?
- Presence of ferrule
- Amount of tooth tissue remaining
- Periodontal health of tooth
- Mobility of the tooth
- Caries level, does it extend sub ginigval
- Pulp status
- Give 3 short term options to replace a MCC that has fallen out of a patients mouth (its an upper central) and explain them?
- Attempt to recement the crown, using a non-eugenol temporary cement. This protects the remaining tooth structure while a new crown is produced.
- Make a provisional using pro temp and temp bond
- Place adhesive cantilever bridge with wing on adjacent incisor, keep away from ginigval margin to prevent inflammation before taking impression for new crown.
How can you check that a bridge has debonded?
- Visual assessment, can you see seperation
- Probe to check around the abutment pontic and wings, checking for gaps
- Mobility of the bridge
- Floss around the bridge
What factors should be taken into consideration before placing a bridge?
- Health/prognosis of the surrounding teeth, especially the abutment teeth
- The periotonal status of pateint
- OH status
- How long is the edentulous span
- Is it in the aesthetic area and does the patient have a high lip line
- Dynamic occlusal relationship
- History of parafunction
What alternative are there to a bridge?
- Accept the space
- Implant
- RPD
- Close space with orthodontics
- overdenture
What are the indications for resin retained bridge?
- Enough healthy enamel to bond
- Large abutment tooth to bond too
- Less destructive, patient doesnt want to lose healthy tooth tissue
- Minimal occlusal load
- Single pontic tooth (small edentulous space)
- Simplify partial denture design
What are the contra-indications, for resin retained bridges?
- Lack of healthy enamel remaining
- Small crown abutment
- More than a single tooth space
- Heavy occlusal forces or parafunctional habits
- Poorly aligned, tilited or spaced teeth
How do you cement a porcelain bridge?
- Make sure the tooth surface is extremely dry
- ## Then use a duel cured resin cement (NEXUS)
with use of a saline coupling agent ? no dont require any bonding agent
How do you cement a metal bridge?
- Panavia (dual cured adhesive resin which contains 10-MDP (a metal bonding agent)
- GI (aquacem)
- RMGI (relyX) luting cements
What is a luting cement?
- A dental cement that is used to attach indirect restorations to prepared teeth
- It fills any voids and mechanically locks the restoration in place to prevent any dislodgement during mastication.
A patient attends your practice complaining of pain from tooth 12 and a de-bonded bridge (fitted three months ago)
1. What is the likely design of the bridge? (1)
- Adhesive bridge with two retainers
A patient attends your practice complaining of pain from tooth 12 and a de-bonded bridge (fitted three months ago)
- What is a reasonable different diagnosis for the pain from tooth 12? (1)
- Reversible pulpitis (short sharp pain apon stimulis (hot,cold, sweet) which then disappears within a few seconds once stimuli is removed)
- No TTP
- well localised (check this)
The bridge deboned on abutment tooth 12 but not abutment tooth 21. The debonded wing on the 12 became a plaque trap leading to caries and ultimately causing pain. Name a better alternative bridge design for the patient and explain why your design would be better? (2)
- Adhesive cantilever bridge on the 21
- As there is now only one wing abutment if it debonds the bridge will come off and there will be no plaque trap and no caries
- Being less destructive as only etching the surface of one tooth
Name 4 factors that could cause a bridge to de-bond? (4)
- Poor moisture control when placing the bridge
- High occlusal forces
- Parafunction habits
- Trauma
- Poor OH
- Unsuitable abutment teeth
The bridge deboned on abutment tooth 12 but not abutment tooth 21. The debonded wing on the 12 became a plaque trap leading to caries and ultimately causing pain. How would you treat tooth 12 with reversible pulpitis?
- Consent patient
- LA
- Remove the caries
- Place pulp cap if necessary (setting calcium hydroxide)
- Restore with composite
- Review patients to check for pain resolution
What material is used in a metal wing of an adhesive bridge?
- Cobalt chrome or nickel chromium
The patient presents with missing upper laterals.
1. What type of bridge can you use to replace teeth? (2)
- Cantilever resin-bonded bridge. (Bond the tooth with a larger surface area to give better bond strength.)
- Fixed-fixed resin bonded bridge
Patient presents with missing upper laterals.
2. What abutment teeth would you use? (2)
- Central incisors and canines for fixed fixed
- Canine for cantilever
- What are 4 pieces of information needed from patient for technician to make the bridge? (4)
- U and L impressions for casts
- Occlusal record
- Master impression with putty wash or impragum
- Facebow
- Bridge design and shade
- material they want the bridge in?
Give 2 alternative for replacing missing teeth, that is not a bridge? (2)
Implant
RPD
A patient present with a conventional bridge with retainer 11 and 22 and a pontic 21 complaining that it is loose. You suspect the retainer on 2 has debonded.
1. How can you detect this clinically/what might you see?
- Visual assesment may see gap between the bridge and abutment on 2
- Probe around the area checking fro gaps
- Is the bridge mobile
- Floss around the bridge
- Push and check for any air bubbles that may appear
List 4 design/preparation features that may can lead to the failure of a bridge.
Poor question
- Poor abutment tooth health
- Poor corwn-to-root ratio
- Preparations were not parallel
- Over-tapered prep
Give 2 alternative treatment options for replacing the tooth?
- RPD
- Implant
Give 2 alternative bridge designs for this scenario? (A resin retained bridge is not an option as the adjacent teeth are prepped).
A patient present with a conventional bridge with retainer 11 and 22 and a pontic 21 complaining that it is loose. You suspect the retainer on 2 has debonded.
- Conventional cantilever
- Spring cantilever
A patient present with an amalgam with an overhang on its mesial surface?
1. How could this have been avoided?
- Good adaption of the matrix band and the use of wooden wedgets
What problems may occur due to this overhang?
- Act as a food and plaque trap which then allows for caries to develop and subsequently pain
- Can be dificult to clean furthering the problem
- Also cause gingivitis and periodontal disease
How do you mange this overhang?
- If possible adjust and repair
- Otherwise replace
How is the surface of a porcelain veneer treated in the lab to improve adhesion?
- Etched with hydrofluoric acid
If using a composite resin cement- what material ensures a good bond to the porcelain?
- Silane coupling agent