Inlays, Onlays and Venners Flashcards

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What are the conventional clinical stages of Indirect restorations?

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  • Preparation
  • Temporisation
  • Impressions and occlusal records
  • Cementation
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What is CAD-CAM?

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  • computer-aided design & computer-aided manufacturing
  • Restorations milled from block of ceramic
  • Chairside
  • Quick ( 1 visit : prep scan and cement)
  • No temp needed
  • Accuracy questionable
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What are inlays?

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  • Intra-coronal restorations made in lab
  • Essentially a filling made outside the mouth
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What are the types of inlays?

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  • Gold
  • Composite
  • Porcelain
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What are the uses of inlays?

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  • Occlusal cavities
  • Occlusal/interproximal cavities
  • Replace failed direct restorations
  • Minor bridge retainers – no longer recommended
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What are the indications if inlays?

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  • Premolars or molars
  • Occlusal restorations
  • Mesio-occlusal or disto-occlusal restoration
  • MOD If kept narrow (If not – consider onlay)
  • Low caries rate
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What are the advantages of inlays vs direct restorations?

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  • Better materials and margins
  • Won’t deteriorate over time
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What are the disadvantages of inlays?

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  • Time
  • Cost
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9
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What tools are needed for inlay preparations?

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  • Handpiece
  • Burs
    • No. 170L
    • No. 169L
    • Coarse-grit flame diamond
    • Flame (H4BL-010)
  • Enamel hatchets
  • Binangle chisel
  • Gingival margin trimmers
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What is the inlay preparation for Ceramic inlay?

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  • 1.5mm-2mm isthmus width
  • 1.5mm depth
  • 1mm shoulder or chamfer margin
  • Occlusal key/dovetail
  • Consider grooves for accessory retention
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What is the lab prescription for inlays and onlays?

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  • Pour impression
  • Mount casts on articulator
  • Construct restoration in
  • Tooth
  • Material
  • Thickness
  • Shade
  • Characteristics
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What can you use to cement ceramic inlays and onlays?

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  • NX3 (Nexus)
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What are onlays?

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  • Extra-coronal restorations made in lab
  • Inlays with cuspal coverage essentially
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What are the types of onlays?

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  • Gold
  • Composite
  • Porcelain
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What are the indications for onlays?

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  • Sufficient occlusal tooth substance loss (buccal and or palatal cusps remain)
  • Remaining tooth substance weakened by caries or pre existing large restoration
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16
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When are cast metal inlays/onlay preferred to amalgam?

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  • When higher strength needed
  • Significant tooth recontouring required
17
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What are the uses of onlays?

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  • Tooth wear cases to increase OVD
  • Fractured cusps
  • Restoration of root treated
  • Replace failed direct restorations
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What is the onlay preparation for porcelain?

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  • Non working cusp 1.5mm reduction
  • Working cusp 2mm reduction
  • Proximal box if required 1mm
  • 1mm shoulder or chamfer
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What does the first appointment for inlays and onlays consist of?

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  • LA if no RCT
  • Make reduction template
  • Impression for temp
  • Tooth prep
  • Make temporary
  • Impressions, bite registration and record shade
  • Cement temp
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What does the 2nd appointment for inlays and onlays consist of?

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  • Remove temp
  • Isolate, clean and dry prepared tooth
  • Try in, assess fit, adaptation and occlusion
  • If happy then cement
  • Minor occlusal adjustments if needed
21
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What are some inlay/onlay alternatives?

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  • Large direct restorations with amalgam/ composite/ GI
  • Crown (either 3/4 or full crown)
  • XLA
22
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What are veneers?

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  • Laminate veneer is a thin layer of cast ceramic that is bonded to labial or palatal surface of a tooth with resin
23
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What are the types of veneers?

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  • Ceramic
  • Composite
  • Gold
24
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What are some indications for veneers?

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  • Improve aesthetics
  • Change teeth shape and / or contour
  • Correct peg shaped laterals
  • Reduce or close proximal spaces and diastemas
  • Align labial surfaces of instanding teeth
  • Enamel defects
  • Discolouration
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What are some contraindications to veneers?

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  • Poor OH
  • High caries rate
  • Gingival recession
  • Root exposure
  • High lip lines
  • Heavy occlusal contacts
  • Sever discolouration
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What is the preparations for veneers if any?

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  • 0.3mm cervical reduction at slight chamfer margin either supragingival or slightly subgingival
  • 0.5mm midfacial reduction
  • 1-1.5mm incisal reduction
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What are the types of veneer preparations?

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  • Feathered incisal edge
  • Incisal bevel
  • Intra-enamel (window)
  • Overlapped incisal edge
28
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What is the temporisation and impression stage of veneers?

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  • May not need but if temp needed
  • Take impressions and occlusal records and send to lab for restoration fabrication
  • Fit temp restoration
29
Q

What is an alternative approach to veneer than temporisation?

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  • Spot bonded composite
  • No etch
  • Small spot of primer and adhesive
  • Directly apply composite
30
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What does the first appointment of veneers consist of?

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  • If tooth prep required
  • LA if needed
  • Make putty index
  • Impression for temp
  • Tooth prep
  • Make temp
  • Impressions, bite registration and record shade
  • Cement temp
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What does 2nd appointment of veneers consist of?

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  • Remove temp
  • Isolate, clean and dry prepared tooth
  • Try in, assess fit, adaptation and occlusion
  • Cement
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What are some alternatives to veneers?

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  • No treatment
  • Micro-abrasion
  • Penetrative resin restorations e.g. ICON
  • Direct composite restorations
  • Crown