Reduction guides are an important part of the restorative process for evaluating our preparations, insuring adequate space for restorative materials. In the Anterior Esthetics and Restorative: A Live Patient Experience course we recommend several types, creating repeated checks throughout the process.
At the most recent course, one of the participants, Faculty Club member Dr. Costin Marinescu, from Tulare, Calif., created a design none of us had seen before. It gave him a view of multiple teeth from different angles. He had additional guides for more detailed inspection of individual teeth, but the ingenuity of this design was unique to our experiences.
Note the excellent adaptation to the tissue on the right of the photo. This was accomplished by meticulous attention to the preliminary impressions so that the wax-up represents actual soft tissue position relative to teeth and makes excellent guides possible. The Live Patient course will be offered only twice in 2011 by application; please e-mail me if you want details on how to apply.
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