Solving Composite Restoration Challenges
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Anticipated availability - November 2024. Available in streaming only.
Gordon J. Christensen, DDS, MSD, PhD
Composite restorations can be beautiful, but often only for a short time. Would you like them to last longer and have preventive characteristics? When observed with an electron microscope, the margins on composite restorations are wide open and the composite’s ~2% polymerization shrinkage invites the development of new caries. Gordon demonstrates numerous ways to improve composite longevity and cariostatic characteristics, including non-traumatic minimal tooth preparation, internal placement of new conventional glass ionomers with a composite layer on top, disinfecting and desensitizing tooth preparations, use of anti-cariogenic materials, and the best composite brands. Other topics include non-traumatic finishing, reducing open margins, and using several methods to create an ideal non-contaminated operating field. Composites can last longer and be preventive with the principles Gordon shows clinically in this video!