Digital Dentistry 08 April 2021
Digital Smile Design - Chairside 3D digital design and trial restoration workflow
Different digital tools have been used in clinical practice to plan the rehabilitation of patients. Some applications and software programs used in <strong> esthetic...
Digital Dentistry 01 April 2021
Do Different Finish Lines Determine Different Fitting of CAD-CAM Crowns?
It is well known that marginal and internal fit play a key role in the long-term success of indirect restorations. Misfit leads to plaque accumulation, secondary caries or periodontal diseases,...
Authors: Marco Brady Bucci, Antonio Guida, Maria Sofia Rini, Dario Brady Bucci
The objective of this work is to analyze, in light of the current diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities offered by digital technologies applied to implant prosthetic dentistry, the clinical...
Author: Katherine Pfaff
Though estimates are down from pre-COVID-19 estimates, the worldwide 3-D dental scanner market is still predicted to increase by $722.59 million 2021-2015, according to the market research firm,...
Digital Dentistry 02 March 2021
Influence of endocrown translucency on the degree of conversion of the luting dual resin cement
Co-authors:Roberto Spreafico, Annalisa Mazzoni, Andrei Cristian Ionescu, Eugenio Brambilla, Lorenzo Breschi, Massimo Mario Gagliani
There are several parameters that influence the degree of conversion of dual cement, such as: the type of light source used for the polymerization, the intensity of the light source, the thickness of...
Digital Dentistry 25 February 2021
The use of endocrown in the rehabilitation of endodontically treated teeth is becoming increasingly popular in recent years, especially thanks to the encouraging data in the literature. This type of...
Digital Dentistry 23 February 2021
RAPID PALATAL EXPANDER: MAXILLARY AND MANDIBULAR MEASUREMENTS USING MANUAL AND DIGITAL METHODS
Ileana Carminati, Joanna Katarzyna Nowakowska, Anna D’Apote, Massimo Del Fabbro, Luca Francetti
Objectives: The aim of this work is to establish a correlation between rapid palatal expansion and changes in width, length and perimeter of the upper and lower arch.Materials and methods: The study...
Digital Dentistry 14 February 2021
Crown fracture in aesthetic area: biological-functional management with chair-side system
Authors: Franco Brenna, Lidia Tordiglione, Adriana Brenna, Sergio Porro
Objectives: The aim of this case report is to present the management of vital anterior tooth with a complex crown fracture with pulp exposure caused by traumatic injury. The case describes the...
Digital Dentistry 26 January 2021
3D facial scanners or 2D images for patient communication and treatment planning?
Intraoral scanners, facial scanners, and computer-aided design software programs have become powerful tools for treatment planning and previsualization, and are everyday more often used by dentists...
Digital Dentistry 24 November 2020
Co-author: F. Florenzano
Today, the use of digital workflows for the fabrication of indirect restorations is constantly increasing thanks to the evolution of computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing-based...
Digital Dentistry 15 September 2020
In the last decade, the development of new technologies has moved in parallel with a rapid evolution of restorative materials on the rails of Digital...
Digital Dentistry 17 June 2020
Co-authors: A. Comba, F. Del Bianco
In recent years the use of chairside CAD/CAM ceramics restorations has rapidly increased. The choice of materials includes zirconia-reinforced lithium silicate...
Digital Dentistry 10 June 2020
Emergency profile in esthetic implant dentistry: is digital workflow suitable?
One of the challenges in esthetic implant supported restorations is to replicate the emergence profile of soft tissue contours created by provisional restorations. Various analog techniques have been...
Digital Dentistry 05 May 2020
How beverages can cause changes in color and translucency of CAD/CAM resin composite
The use of CAD/CAM composite resin blocks is a valid alternative to the ceramic ones in restorative and prosthetic dentistry. In fact, as we can see in all the...
Digital Dentistry 10 March 2020
Several prosthodontics rehabilitation processes are needed to recreate a correct masticatory function. The provisional stage is quite important and materials employed in this phase are not completely...
Digital Dentistry 25 February 2020
Materials for digital dentistry: classification and clinical features
CAD/CAM technology has been used in industry for long time and has increased in popularity over the past years in dentistry from making impressions, casts, provisional and final restorations. The...
Digital Dentistry 20 November 2019
Premolars are the most difficult elements to restore and have a high failure rate due to their anatomical position and the forces they undergo. Therefore the choice of the material to restore...
Digital dentistry may refer to any dental technology or device that incorporates digital or computer-controlled components in contrast to that of mechanical or electrical alone. The scope of digital...
Digital Dentistry 23 October 2019
Wear of CAD-CAM ceramic single crowns and opposing natural teeth: glass matrix vs resin matrix
Contemporary computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) systems involve a wide range of dental restoration indications such as inlays, onlays, laminate...
Digital Dentistry 25 September 2019
With the development of CAD/CAM system, nowadays the most used materials in the prosthetic fields are: zirconia and lithium disilicate. In particular, in a...