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...
Digital Dentistry 30 July 2019
Nowadays, numerous researches are conducted to improve and understand CAD-CAM processes in terms of technology and materials. Indeed, the improvement in the...
Digital Dentistry 03 July 2019
Metal-free implant-supported restorations: modern solutions for single tooth applications
In many areas of restorative dentistry, metal-free materials offer an alternative to metal-based restorations while ensuring high levels of biocompatibility and...
Digital Dentistry 05 June 2019
The increased aesthetic demand, without sacrificing the preservation of biological structures, has led to the development and use, in recent years, new generations...
Digital Dentistry 08 May 2019
3D CAD/CAM planning of alignment treatment for complex orthodontic case
Author: Rafi Romano
The following clinical case presents complex aesthetic and functional case of sever deep bite with relapse of previous orthodontic treatment in childhood, combined...
Digital Dentistry 03 April 2019
CAD-CAM VS hot-press lithium disilicate crowns: which guarantees a better marginal fit?
Increasing demand for esthetic dental restorations has led to the popularity of ceramic restoration systems. Among these the most used is lithium disilicate,...
Digital Dentistry 23 January 2019
Fiber posts made with CAD/CAM system: a valid alternative to metal posts made in laboratory
The old diatribe between the fiber post and the metal post seems to have been definitively resolved, since the survival of the teeth reconstructed with the first...
Digital Dentistry 08 January 2019
Prosthetic and Conservative Rehabilitation with 3 step technique: a clinical case
The patient M. D. (years 52) comes to our observation showing the need to improve in a less invasive way his dental situation that has deteriorated over the years,...