Digitally designed reduction guide to correct proclined anterior teeth: An aid before fabricating trial restorations

Efstratios Papazoglou; Panagiotis Ntovas; Constantinos Charalambous; Efthimios Tsanais; Stephen Koubi

doi:10.1016/j.prosdent.2021.03.028

Digitally designed reduction guide to correct proclined anterior teeth: An aid before fabricating trial restorations

J Prosthet Dent. 2023 Jan;129(1):14-17. doi: 10.1016/j.prosdent.2021.03.028. Epub 2021 May 11.

Authors

Efstratios Papazoglou¹, Panagiotis Ntovas², Constantinos Charalambous², Efthimios Tsanais³, Stephen Koubi⁴

Affiliations

¹ Associate Professor, Department of Operative Dentistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece. Electronic address: spapazog@dent.uoa.gr.
² Postgraduate student, Department of Operative Dentistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
³ Private Dental Laboratory, Athens, Greece.
⁴ Private practice, Marseille, France.

PMID: 33985757
DOI: 10.1016/j.prosdent.2021.03.028

Abstract

Restoring teeth with ceramic laminate veneers is most often an additive procedure. However, when proclined anterior teeth are being treated, a misfitting silicone matrix will lead to inaccurate trial restorations, affecting evaluation of the definitive esthetic result and leading to inaccurate definitive preparations. Using the digital technology, a 3-dimensionally printed reduction guide can be used to remove the proclined areas as the first step before trial restorations. Then, the trial restorations and made and then the definitive preparations made through them.

MeSH terms

Ceramics
Dental Porcelain*
Dental Veneers*
Esthetics, Dental

Substances

Dental Porcelain