Tooth Wear Management: Treatment Options
This is the most important area of routine dental treatment in everyday clinical practice. The aim is to teach the clinician a simple predictable way of restoring worn dentition.
All aspects of tooth surface loss (TSL) is discussed in detail with simplified concepts of restorations that will surprise the clinician and allow confidence in your clinical practice in diagnosis and management of this complex TSL cases
To develop a treatment plan that will solve both our patients’ aesthetic desires and their functional needs.
Course Outline​
- Poor aesthetics can relate to compromised function
- The assessment and diagnosis of tooth wear (TSL: tooth surface loss) is essential to formulate correct treatment plan
- The term tooth-wear is preferred to cover all aetiological factors, since one factor may predominate
- Therefore good communication between the dentist and the patient is essential in the identification of the aetiology
- The patient must be made aware of the of the problem and the various ways of its prevention and management & this is an important part of the consenting process
- Minimal intervention is stressed in this module since tooth wear aetiology can be poorly understood
Course Topics​
- Dynamic Smile design revisited
- TOOTH WEAR
- Reverse Smile Line using composites
- TOOTH WEAR EXERCISE Anterior six veneers
- Occlusion concepts revisited
- DAHL concept
- Restore & establish OVD ( occlusal vertical dimension)
- COMPLEX AESTHETICS 1 2 3 & CONTINGENCY PLANNING
- The use of indirect restorations in tooth wear cases will be covered in modules 7. 8. 9.
Course Objectives
On completion of this module you should have good understanding of the following
- Diagnosis of tooth wear (TSL: tooth surface loss)
- Long-term assessment of tooth wear
- When to observe, when to manage & when to treat
- Confidently assess & treat tooth wear cases using composites
- The use of composite material in the management of occlusal rehabilitation cases
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