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Establishing Clinical Guidelines to Ensure
Optimized Pulp Therapy Outcomes: Utilization
of Biologically Based Data
by Charles F. Cox, DMD, PhD., FADI |
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| An often-asked question during our young years was, which came first, the chicken or the egg? For our profession, a similar academic question might be, which came first, direct or indirect pulp capping — save the pulp or save the tooth? Literature suggests that by removing severely decayed dentin our emerging dental professioin of the 1700's became more focused on treating mechanical carious pulp exposures than removal of soft cariously infected, affected dentin for so-called indirect capping, which came along later. |
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The Art and Science of Modern Techniques
for Restoring Badly Broken Down Teeth
by Kathy L. O'Keefe, DDS, MS |
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Almost no procedure in dentistry has undergone more evolution both in philosophy and clinical practice than the restoration of badly broken down vital- and non-vital teeth. The issuses surrounding this topic include post vs. no post, adhesive cements vs. traditional post cements, adhesive technique, core materials, and technique sensitivity in core placement. Within the adhesive technique category, there are a multiude of issues to consider, includding mode of cure, compatibility of adhesives and core material, phosphoric acid etch vs. self-etch products, and contamination with sulcular fluids or other agents...
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Tips for Successful Posterior Resin
Composite Restorations
by Dr. Junji Tagami, Tokyo Medical & Dental University |
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Because of the development of material science and cariology, it became very easy to obtain successful results with posterior restorations using adhesive resin composites. The successful results include esthetics, long lasting function, and of course, no post operative sensitivity of the tooth. At the same time, the procedures and manipulation of the materials should be simple and easy to reduce the operator's technique sensitivity...
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The Evolution of Dentin Bonding from No-Etch
to Total-Etch to Self-Etch
by David H. Pashley, DMD, PhD. |
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Adhesive resins are designed to provide strong coupling between resin composites and enamel and dentin. The earliest dental adhesives were relatively hydrophobic and were placed directly on enamel and dentin smear layers, although the presence of these layers were unknown at that time. Today, we would call that technique the no-etch bonding technique...
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Bisphenol A and Dental Sealants |
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Kuraray America, Inc. would like to respond to your concerns regarding the chemical "Bisphenol-A (BPA)", and whether our resin materials contain it...... |
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