STATISTICAL STUDY REGARDING THE INTEREST OF THE DENTISTS RELATED TO THE USE OF DENTAL CERAMIC VEENERS

Minimally invasive therapy represents the actual therapeutic trend used in all dental specialties. In the last decades, the direct veneer restoration technique has been on an ascending trend, linked to the will of achieving esthetic restoration with minimally dental tissue sacrifice. The purpose of this study is to evaluate practitioners rate of interest regarding minimally invasive techniques. Material and method. The study has been conducted based on an electronic survey send to a number of 180 dentists from Bucharest. Results and discussions. The response rate was 69.4%. Most of the respondents 97 (78%) know the minim invasive therapie procedures, but 28 (22%) does not apply them in the daily practice. The study showed that direct restoration is the most preferred technique 30%, 51% choose to prepare the vestibular surface limited to enamel only and 47% use lithium disilicate based ceramic. Almost 90% of the patients have declared themselves satisfied regarding estethics, without revealing significant differences concerning the failure of ceramic veneers versus the type of used ceramics, or the level of tooth preparation and used ceramics. The results revealed a correlation between the patients levels of satisfaction and the preparation design (r = 0.015). Conclusions. Developing proper diagnostic analyzes correlated with operator’s experience and strictly follow the therapeutic protocol can determine an increase in the lifespan of ceramic veneers

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