Impressions Vital to Cosmetic Dentistry
Most interesting aspects of reconstructive dental industry is the approach different dentists use to implant oral temporaries. The training in dental school teaches the function of a temporary is to mask the decayed tooth for comfort until the permanent reconstruction is complete, and to keep teeth in the same spot as when the impression was taken, so that the oral reconstruction aligns correctly. This is still the technique used today when we do restorations that will basically position the tooth back to its original spot. If you are molding a simple temporary for a tooth going into the same position, a pre-op temporary works nicely.
We now have another technique filtering into the dental industry. A new technique is dentistry for tooth wear – and the focus is on making the patient’s teeth and alignment look better, so we often want to adjust the spot of the teeth. One thing to think about is that when altering position of teeth, temporaries become the principal way to test the new position for teeth ware and jaw alignment. When dentists do large reconstructive surgery, the dentist usually replays the technique multiple times in their head. The accurately contoured restoration becomes the primary way dentists can test the all-important functional parameters. Particularly for frontal teeth cases, don’t rush. Send a second impression of the properly contoured restoration to the dental lab; as it is the plan for success.
