title: Esthetic restoration of traumatized permanent teeth in children using composite vestibular veneers (preliminary communication).
abstract: All people are eager to have attractive dental looks. Esthetic corrections of defects caused by colour alteration are required more and more frequently by dental patients. Very often even the form of viable or devitalised teeth in children is wanted to be changed. The modern composite materials allow this to be done by vestibular veneers satisfying even the highest requirements in this respect. THE AIM of the study was to address the matter of the restoration of traumatised permanent children's teeth by composite veneers.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study included 30 traumatized permanent anterior teeth in children which, after dealing with the trauma, were restored by means of composite veneers. The teeth were first prepared using a suitable method and the composite veneers were fabricated during the same visit. The patients were evaluated at one, three and six months.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The colour, margin integrity, surface structure, and anatomic form were rated using the California Dental Association's criteria. CONCLUSIONS. Restoration of traumatized permanent teeth in children with vestibular veneers yields very good clinical results. The composite veneers is an alternative method in restoration of such teeth in children.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Higher Institute of Medicine, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Belcheva
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003188:Composite Resins; D004954:Esthetics; D006801:Humans; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D018677:Tooth Injuries / Q000628:therapy*
chemical_list: D003188:Composite Resins