Digital technologies offer access to more diagnostic information and enable a higher predictability. With the transfer into monolithic polymer materials innovative options for the clinical evaluation of esthetics and function are available. CAD/CAM-fabricated bi-maxillary splints allow to exploring the final treatment goal in reversible test drives. Based on removability of the splints, surgical, periodontal, and restorative pre-treatments can be integrated in this period. In all treatment steps the patient keeps in the center of his esthetic and functional exploration. The transfer into definitive restorations made of lithium-(di)silicate and different types of zirconium oxide ceramics can be divided into multiple treatment steps, minimizing risk factors of complex rehabilitations.

Comprehensive case reports and treatment concepts will offer insight into today’s possibilities when creating reliable complex tooth-colored indirect restorations. Also, the application in patients with parafunctional habits and their scientific long-term results in clinical trials will be discussed.

 

Objectives:

1 Analog or Digital? The work begins and ends with the original, the patient.

2 The method of facial and type analysis according to Otto Prandtner.

3 To differentiate pre-treatment options with CAD/CAM-fabricated polymers.

4 To understand material selection criteria to ensure durable CAD/CAM-fabricated temporaries. 

5 To identify the treatment steps for the transfer into definitive restorations.

6 Highlight the esthetic/functional potential and limitations of all-ceramic materials on the basis of long-term clinical results.

  Edition 2023

  20/10/2023

  10:40 - 11:30