Ceramic veneers: contact lenses and fragments

A comprehensive guide on ceramic veneers

This e-book aims to present a work philosophy whose foundations are on clinic protocols based and stablished over literature on ceramic veneers, leading to a better comprehension of planning and execution of a aesthetic-functional rehabilitation, promoting the excellence in outcomes and professional ethics.

It presents the current state of the art in dentistry and set the foundations to the aesthetic rehabilitation, approaching essential matters such as aesthetic principles and planning process.

Supported by a large number of clinical cases, it explains and illustrates all the steps towards a full aesthetic rehabilitation in a high quality digital publication.

Table of contents

Section I. Initial
Chapter 1. A new age in dentistry
Chapter 2. Aesthetic principles
Chapter 3. Shade selection and reproduction in ceramic veneers
Chapter 4. Aesthetic rehabilitation planning

Section II. Before
Chapter 5.1. Orthodontics as a differential for pretreatment ceramic veneers
Chapter 5.2. Periodontal plastic surgery
Chapter 5.3. Tooth bleaching
Chapter 5.4. Occlusal plastic restorative therapy

Section III. Implementation
Chapter 6.1. Preparation for ceramic veneers
Chapter 6.2. Ceramic fragments
Chapter 7. Ceramic Systems
Chapter 8. Impression taking for ceramic veneers – the essence of communication
Chapter 9. Provisional restorations for ceramic veneers

Section IV. Cementation
Chapter 10. Dental adhesion
Chapter 11. Resin cements
Chapter 12. Cementation

Section V. Follow-up
Chapter 13. Maintenance
Chapter 14. Failures of ceramic veneers
Chapter 15. Before and after