A clinical case involving severe erosion of the maxillary anterior teeth restored with direct composite resin restorations.
THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ESTHETIC DENTISTRY The management of individual cases presents each clinician with a variety of attractive options and sophisticated evidence based solutions. Financial constraints can often restrict these options and limit the choice pathways that can be offered. The case presented here demonstrates the management of severe erosion on the maxillary anterior teeth via a minimally invasive, practical, and economic route. When tooth surface loss occurs,1 it can be clinically challenging to isolate a single etiological factor since it is usually multifactorial in origin. The patient presented with the classic signs of erosion (Fig 1a) A major causative factor of this erosion was a large consumption of carbonated beverages on a daily basis over a number of years. Chronic exposure of dental hard tissues to acidic substrates led to extensive enamel and dentin loss from both intrinsic and extrinsic sources (Fig 1b and c) The ACE classification guides the clinician on the management options of treatment modalities, which are dependent on the severity of the erosion.2 A clinical case involving severe erosion of the maxillary anterior teeth restored with direct composite resin restorations
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