Dentistry

Biography

Biography: Roula Al Bounni

Abstract

Every new material or technique introduced to the field of dentistry aims to achieve esthetic and successful dental treatments with minimal invasiveness. Therefore, direct laminate veneers have developed for advanced esthetic problems of anterior teeth. Tooth discolorations, rotated teeth, coronal fractures, congenital or acquired malformations, diastemas, discolored restorations, palatally positioned teeth, abrasions and erosions are the main esthetic problems for many patients, and it's basically the main indications for direct laminate veneers. Also, along passing time, Changes in color, shape, and structural abnormalities of anterior teeth might lead to important esthetic problems for patient, for that laminate direct composite veneers could be a good conservative solution for all these problems. Direct Laminate veneers are applied on prepared tooth surfaces with composite resin material directly in dental clinic. Absence of necessity for tooth preparation, low cost, intraoral polishing of direct laminate veneers is easy to use, and any cracks or fractures on the restorations may be repaired intra-orally, all of these are some advantages of this technique, however, the main disadvantages of direct veneers are low resistance to wear, discoloration and fractures, but the improvements of the new generations of resin composite restorations and adhesive techniques have surmount all these problems. But it's worth mentioning that the material itself, and the ideal application of this technique is the main factor to achieve long lifespan for successful outcome. By this technique we can get lot of benefits with wide range of people who seek improvements in there distorted smile due to numerous problems in anterior teeth.