An Innovative Technique: All-Ceramic Resin-Bonded Bridgework
DENTAL NEWS, VOLUME XI, NUMBER I, 2004 An Innovative Technique: All-Ceramic Resin-Bonded Bridgework By Dr. Ahed Al-Wahadni (ahed@just.edu.jo) - Associate Professor, Chairman of Allied Dental Sciences, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Jordan University of Science and Technology SUMMARY Resin bonded prosthesis is a prosthesis that is luted to tooth structure, primarily enamel, which has been etched to provide micro-mechanical retention for the resin cement (The Glossary of Prosthodontic Terms, 1994). Furthermore the retainer(s) is/are made of base metal. In this case an all-ceramic cantilevered RBB was made and fitted to restore an unsavable upper central incisor. To our knowledge, this is the first time ever to report a free meta ceramic cantilevered RBB. INTRODUCTION: Resin-bonded bridgework (RBB) is currently accepted as an effective method for the restoration of missing teeth in a arrange of clinical situations (Al-Wahadni & Hussey,...