
TERMINOLOGY
To undertake the study of the fixed prostheses requires basic knowledge about the terminology that has developed the dental profession in this field.
BRIDGE DENTAL
Tooth serves as a connecting element for a fixed partial denture is called a pillar . The artificial tooth that is based on a pontic abutments. The pontic is connected to the retainers fixed partial denture, it is onlays or crowns are cemented to the abutment teeth preparations. Intracoronary restores lack of retention and endurance needed to be used as retainers for fixed partial dentures. The connectors between the pontic and the retainer can be rigid (ie castings welded joints or connectors) or non-rigid (ie, precision attachments or stressbreakers).
CORONA.
A crown is a restoration cemented extracoronary covering the outer surface of the clinical crown. You must reproduce the morphology and the contours of the damaged parts of the crown of a tooth, so that it can perform its function. It also has to protect the remaining tooth structure from injury added.
If covering the entire clinical crown, the crown restoration coating called full or total . Can be completely made of gold alloy, or some other metal rust, with fired ceramic on metal, all-ceramic, resin and metal, or acrylic resin only. If one is of some parts of the clinical crown, the restoration is called partial coating crown.
Another cemented type of restoration has gained considerable popularity in the last 10 years. The porcelain veneers vestibular veneers used in situations that require an improved aesthetic appearance of an anterior tooth on the other hand, is healthy. Consists of a thin layer of porcelain or ceramic casting that sticks to the buccal surface of the tooth using an appropriate resin.