title: Reconstruction of esthetics with a digital approach.
abstract: Anterior restorations represent a great challenge for both the clinician and dental technician. Long-term provisional restorations can be used to test a new restorative design and to improve the predictability of the definitive restoration with regard to shape, shade, occlusion, and soft tissue interface. To improve the clinical outcome and reduce costs, a new treatment strategy was developed. Teeth were restored with long-term provisional crowns fabricated from a polymer material using a computer-aided design/computer-assisted manufacture (CAD/CAM) system. Definitive all-ceramic restorations fabricated by the same CAD/CAM system were cemented as duplicates of the individualized provisional crowns after 3 months.
authors.affiliation: Department of Prosthodontics, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany. florian.beuer@med.uni-muenchen.de
authors.forename: Florian
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Beuer
authors.forename: Josef
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Schweiger
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Edelhoff
authors.forename: John A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Sorensen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002484:Cementation / Q000379:methods; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D003442:Crowns; D003481:Cuspid / Q000473:pathology; D000044:Dental Abutments; D003764:Dental Materials / Q000737:chemistry; D003776:Dental Porcelain / Q000737:chemistry; D017267:Dental Prosthesis Design; D003794:Dental Restoration, Temporary; D004955:Esthetics, Dental; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007180:Incisor / Q000473:pathology; D008437:Maxilla; D016876:Metal Ceramic Alloys / Q000737:chemistry; D008875:Middle Aged; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry; D019231:Tooth Preparation, Prosthodontic / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D003764:Dental Materials; D016876:Metal Ceramic Alloys; D011108:Polymers; C493120:lithia disilicate; D003776:Dental Porcelain