[...]... abrasive polishing paste Left: Abrasion of a microfilled composite surface with a ProphyJet 14 Basic Principles of Aesthetic Dentistry Home Care-Patients with Aesthetic Restorations A patient with tooth-colored restorations should be given clear instructions by the dentist or dental hygienist on how to perform oral hygiene at home Given the quantity of products offered in drug stores, it may be difficult... advantages and disadvantages of the different restorative materials and coordinate professional and home-care oral hygiene procedures accordingly Professional Dental Hygiene 11 Professional Tooth Cleaning in Patients with Aesthetic Restorations It is very important that the dental hygienist and the entire dental practice team use established methods when performing professional tooth cleaning, scaling,... Karlstad, Sweden, over the past 30 years Today, the majority of children will reach adulthood without suffering from caries Incipient carious lesions can be treated with adhesive restorative materials 10 Basic Principles of Aesthetic Dentistry Aesthetic Dentistry- A Treatment Concept Aesthetic treatment, like any other dental treatment, consists of four phases: Phase 1: Systemic Phase This phase starts... photos in the dental office: -Having photographic documentation of the initial condition, the individual treatment steps, and the final result is very important -Dentists document their work and monitor their skills Good recording is a part of the quality control system and offers dentists a wealth of information from, for example, the gingival condition of the patient to color differences of veneer -Photographs... the dental hygienist must be aware of the specific demands of a particular treatment or material Most aesthetic restorations consist of resins, ceramics, glasses, or a combination of these materials Materials rich in resins (composites, resin cements, resin-reinforced glass i onomers and compomers) have a higher rate of wear and are subject to chemical degradation Ceramics have a greater risk of fracturing... a dental practice, aesthetic dental medicine should be offered only in connection with a preventive dental concept based on the following four levels: -prenatal prevention -primary prevention -secondary prevention -tertiary prevention The individual risk of caries and periodontitis of each patient should be established at the beginning of the treatment Expensive, cemented, tooth-colored restorations... Future of Dentistry G F Christensen, J Schmidseder 280 280 280 281 282 282 282 283 283 283 284 284 284 284 284 Developments in Dentistry -Negative Future Trends in Dentistry -Positive Future Trends in Dentistry Diagnosis and Treatment Planning Operative Dentistry Endodontics Periodontology Orthodontics Pedodontics Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Prosthodontics -Materials -CAD/CAM -Concepts Preventive Dentistry. .. Chlorhexidine causes discoloration of the tooth surface This discoloration increasingly appears at the bonded sites and on resin surfaces and is very difficult to remove If mouth rinses containing chlorhexidine must be used, local application of a gel is recommended to minimize the discoloration Additional Aids Many patients use dental floss, proxabrushes, and toothpicks The use of dental floss is usually... only be carried out upon completion of the hygiene phase Its actual l ong-term success is ensured by the maintenance phase (see also Figs 10 and 11 ) The Necessity of Caring for Aesthetic Restorations The longevity of many tooth-colored restorations can be as good as that of metal restorations Prerequisites for success is careful planning of the treatment, skillful use of the materials, and a maintenance... bits) steps The computer then reduces the quantity of i ncoming data Eight bits are available for each of the three primary colors, which means that it can process 16.7 million (256-256 256) colors Lenses The quality of a picture is also determined by the quality of the lens High-resolution, professional cameras with interchangeable lenses (e.g., Kodak of DCS 1 to DC 5, DCS 410 to DCS 460 with Canon . x0 y0 w0 h0" alt="" Aesthetic Dentistry Color Atlas of Dental Medicine Editors: Klaus H. Rateitschak and Herbert F Wolf Aesthetic Dentistry Josef Schmidseder With. PhD, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Dental Biomaterials, University of Florida, Gainesville; Edward A Reetz, DDS, Professor and Chairman of the Department