Modern materials for dental restoration - types, methods, advantages

How is dental restoration performed?

Unlike materials, dental restoration technology has not changed for decades. First, the tooth is prepared for the procedure, and then the cleared area is filled with restoration material.

Preparation consists of removing damaged tissue and grinding the tooth. The essence of preparation is to ensure the ability to hold the dental restoration material inside the crown of the tooth or outside it. This is the stage that overly impressionable patients are afraid of, who shudder at the sight of dental instruments.

The second stage of dental restoration with filling material involves the introduction of a filler and subsequent build-up (direct technique) or the manufacture of a prosthesis (indirect technique). These procedures are painless.

What defects can be eliminated with the help of restoration

Direct restoration allows to eliminate the following defects of the dentition:

• depressions and cracks in the structure on the chewing, lingual and buccal surfaces;
• caries on the approximal surface;
• chips and other defects on the cutting surface;
• caries on the tubercles of molars.

In this case, it is possible not only to restore the functionality of molars and premolars, but also to perform aesthetic restoration of the front teeth with a filling material, when the shade of the extended incisor or canine will match the natural color of the enamel. However, to do this, you need to choose the right filler that will provide both aesthetic appeal and strength.

Types of materials for dental restoration

The right material for dental restoration should have high mechanical strength and demonstrate good adhesion to its tissues. In addition, after filling is complete, the material should demonstrate a natural shine and color, imitating the texture of enamel.

Only a few materials have such qualities, among which the following options are the most promising:

• Dental porcelain is a high-temperature firing ceramic with very high strength characteristics. This option is used only when choosing an indirect restoration technique. Porcelain is used to make veneers, crowns, bridges, both for the front and back teeth. However, porcelain materials for the restoration of front teeth are quite expensive.
• Composite materials are a complex composition based on bisphenol-glycidyl methacrylate or dimethacrylate-urethane resins reinforced with silicon dioxide. After mixing the components, such a composition hardens only under the influence of light or heat, so composites retain elasticity for a long time, allowing you to sculpt any relief. A wide range of colors allows you to imitate the color of enamel.

Composites have very high strength characteristics and no significant drawbacks, so they can be considered an ideal material for tooth restoration.

Materials for aesthetic restoration of teeth

Experienced dentists of the "Reconstructive Dentistry Clinic" are engaged in the restoration, reconstruction and transformation of teeth, eliminating integrity defects and changing the spatial position or shape. In this case, both direct and indirect techniques of intervention in the dentition are used.

In the format of the direct technique, the clinic offers restoration of teeth with light-curing materials - composite photopolymers or light polymers. With the help of these compositions, doctors can restore a damaged tooth, imitating not only the color, but also the texture and shape. Another promising material for direct restoration is glass polymer - a composition that releases fluoride, which prevents the development of caries. In the case of glass polymer, tooth restoration can be completed in 20-40 minutes.

Indirect tooth restoration is carried out in the format of microprosthetics. Doctors are ready to offer patients veneers or lumineers, before installing which the dentition will be examined using a Carl Zeiss OPMI pico microscope, which allows simulating texture and color with the greatest possible accuracy.