Prosthetics
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Facets (Veneers, Ljuspice)
The popular minimally invasive aesthetic smile correction with ceramic flakes is made of different materials. The longest-lasting and most beautiful are ceramic veneers that are made from a special type of LITHIUM DI SILICATA ceramic (Press, Empress IVOCLAR). It is possible to make them from different types of plastic materials (composites), using different techniques. Composite veneers last less, and are subject to wear and darkening around the edges during use. Ceramic veneers are made by se computerized CAD-CAM technologywith them, superior aesthetics and long-term stable results are achieved.
Inlays (Inlay, Onlay, Overlay)
Ceramic fillings are also indicated when the patient wants minimally invasive reconstructions without grinding the teeth. They are made of special LITHIUM DI SILICATE ceramics. They are made with the help of computerized CAD-CAM technology. Dugovecni are a very high-quality, minimally invasive solution for large fillings.
Crowns and bridges
Crowns and Bridges are fixed restorations, they are called fixed because they are permanently cemented in the patient's mouth and can only be removed by a dentist, unlike prostheses that the patient takes off and puts on to maintain hygiene. Crowns and bridges can be worn with natural teeth or implants. They are made of different materials: metal-ceramics, zirconia, lithium and silicate ceramics...
In our practice, for the production of crowns and bridges, we use the most modern materials ZIRCONIA or Lithium di silicate, they are made with the most precise computer guided CAD-CAM technology.
Dental prostheses
When, for various reasons, it is not possible to install fixed prosthetic restorations, mobile prosthetics offer an adequate solution. Mobile prostheses can be total or partial. Complete dentures can also be anchored on implants. A total denture is a prosthetic replacement that aims to compensate for the loss of all lost teeth, while a partial denture compensates for the loss of one or more teeth by relying on the remaining teeth. We show you several examples of total and partial dentures.
Dental prostheses are artificial restorations that are made for patients who are totally edentulous or for patients who are missing a large number of teeth, and there are no conditions for making fixed restorations (bridges).
What is the difference between fixed restorations (bridges) and dentures?
Fixed restorations (crowns and bridges) are permanently cemented in the patient's mouth and can only be removed by a dentist, unlike prostheses, which are removed and put on by the patient himself to maintain hygiene.
THE MOST IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DENTURES AND FIXED RESTORATION (BRIDGES) IS THAT THE FIXED WORK ENSURES THAT THE PATIENT GAINS A SENSE OF HIS TEETH IN A VERY SHORT TIME, WHICH GIVES HIM GREAT COMFORT. THIS IS NEVER THE CASE WITH DENTURES BECAUSE THEY ARE MUCH MORE BULKIER, THEY TAKE UP A LARGE SPACE IN THE ORAL CAVITY, OFTEN COVER SOFT TISSUES AND RELY ON THEM WHICH REDUCES COMFORT AND INCREASES THE FEELING OF THE PRESENCE OF A FOREIGN BODY IN THE PATIENT'S MOUTH.
Why should every lost tooth be replaced?
The position of modern dentistry is that every lost tooth should be replaced. The reason is that the natural chewing system is designed for 32 teeth, i.e. the system of muscles, ligaments and bones produce a certain force that is required for biting off and chewing food, this force is relatively constant throughout life and is intended to be evenly distributed over the 32 teeth.
When that system of balance is disturbed by the loss of even one tooth, a smaller number of teeth accepts a greater load, which most often leads to the movement of the teeth, their tilting, rotating, floating. This has the consequence that such teeth come into premature contact (one tooth before the other teeth touches the teeth of the opposite jaw during chewing), and this leads to the sliding of the jaw to the left, right or forward back, which results in the loading of the jaw joint, the stretching of the ligaments of the joint and even more severe consequences for the joint. If there are changes in the jaw joint, it is very difficult to treat and is very uncomfortable and painful for the patient. These are of course very slow processes but with serious consequences.
It very often happens that the joint withstands these additional pressures, but then the remaining teeth suffer by either fracturing them when parts of the crowns and fillings break, or the pressure causes bone loss and, in fact, the so-called pockets as a result of traumatic occlusion also leads to loosening of the teeth (especially if they are already at risk of periodontal disease) because due to high pressure on non-biological places, the bone that holds the tooth in the jaw collapses and the tooth no longer has the support of the bone and becomes loose and falls out. It is so often heard from patients that, for example, he lost his first tooth at the age of 40, and then lost several more teeth in a very short time. These processes of tooth loss are accelerated by the fact that the surrounding teeth are usually not healthy, but are under fillings or endodontically treated, or periodontopathic...
Dental restorations, why and when?
The trend of modern dentistry is to keep the tooth in the jaw as long as possible. There are a number of reasons for this. For this purpose, it often happens that the root of the tooth is healthy, ie. that the bone and tooth and bone connections around it are healthy, but the crown is partially or completely destroyed.
Such a root does not have to be extracted, it is cured, ie. the root canal is filled with the material intended for it (or it has already been previously filled) and an extension is made on it that imitates the appearance of a ground tooth and serves to make an adequate crown on it. Superstructures can be cast, which are made of special metals, or composite, which are made of aesthetic materials.