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Department of Prosthodontics
Faculty of Dentistry, University
of Hacettepe 06100, Ankara,
Turkey
ABSTRACT
Received
: 20-12-06
Review completed : 16-03-08
Accepted
: 16-04-08
This clinical report describes an alternative prosthodontic treatment of a patient who had severely
damaged endodontically-treated first molar teeth in all quadrants of her mouth. The young
patients severely damaged permanent molar teeth were treated with a restoration combining the
advantage of the esthetics of dental porcelain, reinforced with the underlying cast gold dowel
crown. Using this technique, the remaining sound tooth structure was preserved with function
and esthetics accomplished. The described metal-ceramic one piece dowel crown restoration
seemed to perform without any problems for the 12 month evaluation time.
PubMed ID
: 19336871
DOI: 10.4103/0970-9290.49063
Key words: Dowel core, dowel crown, endodontic therapy, esthetics, onlay restoration
CASE REPORT
A 21-year-old young female reported for an evaluation of
her permanent rst molar teeth. She had a dental history of
caries in all rst molars, which were consecutively treated
with amalgam llings [Figure 1]. Six months before her
treatment in the prosthodontic department, the patient had
an endodontic emergency procedure in the maxillar right
rst molar tooth. A clinical evaluation revealed an anterior
open articulator and posterior premature contacts while the
radiographic evaluation revealed unsuccessful llings. The
patient also stated that she was not fond of the black llings
on her teeth. Therefore, endodontic treatment was applied
to all of her rst molar teeth prior to prosthetic treatment.
This work has been presented as a poster presentation at the
28th Annual Conference of the European Prosthodontic
Association Conference in Kuadas-zmir-Turkey on the
16th through the 18th of September 2004.
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Figure 1: Pretreatment radiographs of rst molar teeth
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