Assistant Professor Dentistry Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center Hospital, Cincinnati, OH
Zirconia is Hard, but the Preps Don't Have to Be! Treatment planning to efficiently maximizing clinic time for pediatric zirconia crowns can be difficult. There are ways to increase efficiency and success as well as maintaining parental expectations for the longevity of the restoration. Information from this class will have next day applications in your operatory and take home points that can be applied to your next zirconia crown .
This presentation will be offered throughout the Early Career Dentist session.
Learning Objectives:
How do pediatric zirconia crowns fit into our treatment planning spectrum? Identify cases both posterior and anterior that would be good first cases for pediatric zirconia crowns: Starting off with difficult cases can make pediatric zirconia crowns less attractive as a good treatment option for your patients, or present with a steeper learning curve when first learning this procedure.
Identify time saving measures when doign anterior and posterior zirconia pediatric crowns that will allow for more efficient preperations crown fit and cementiation.
Identify measures that can be utilized to help with the long-term predictability of pediatric zirconia crowns: What does the available literature report on longevity? What to do when if a crown is dislodged or uncemented, or we deliver and occlusion is high? How do we deal with clinical failures? What are our outcome measures of success?