title: Indirect or direct restorations for heavily restored posterior adult teeth?
abstract: There is no high quality evidence that supports or rejects the practice of placing a crown or onlay on a vital posterior tooth rather than a composite or amalgam restoration to ensure longer tooth survival.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Evidence-based Dentistry, Oxford, UK.
authors.forename: Dominic
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hurst
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003188:Composite Resins; D003442:Crowns; D003723:Dental Amalgam; D058250:Dental Restoration Repair / Q000191:economics* / Q000379:methods*; D055094:Evidence-Based Dentistry; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D003188:Composite Resins; D003723:Dental Amalgam