Main description:

Even with the option of dental implants, periodontists, restorative dentists, and general dentists alike continue to treat patients' natural teeth on a day-to-day basis. Procedures including crown lengthening surgery, furcation treatment, mucogingival therapy, and tooth restoration are essential treatment regimes requiring multifaceted expertise. Periodontal-Restorative Interrelationships: Ensuring Clinical Success provides guidelines for comprehensive treatment planning, and features step-by-step clinical instruction for periodontal and restorative procedures from beginning to end. As a result, the book fosters better understanding and increased efficiencies between specialties, resulting in shorter treatment times and consistently better therapeutic outcomes. Periodontal-Restorative Interrelationships: Ensuring Clinical Success begins with a careful discussion of treatment planning, comprehensively covering all variables in simple to complex cases. Subsequent chapters focus upon the most commonly encountered clinical challenges, using a systematic, easy-to-follow approach to various treatment methodologies. All chapters are well-illustrated with clinical examples.
Firmly grounded in evidence-based research, the book affords clinicians from multiple specialties a practical guide for predictable, successful results. Accessible and logically organized, Periodontal-Restorative Interrelationships is an invaluable reference for all clinicians performing these procedures.

Contents:

Contributors. Chapter 1 Examination and Diagnosis (Paul Fugazzotto and Sergio DePaoli). Establishing an Appropriate Treatment Plan. Determining Periodontal Treatment Endpoints. Rationale for Pocket-Elimination Periodontal Surgery. Junctional Epithelial Adhesion or Connective Tissue Attachment? The Signifi cance of Furcation Involvements. The Infl uence of Restorative Margins. Does Pocket-Elimination Therapy Work? Conclusion. Chapter 2 The Role of Crown-Lengthening Therapy (Paul Fugazzotto). Management of the Apico-occlusal Dimension. Incision Design. Conclusion. Chapter 3 Treating the Periodontally Involved Furcation (Paul Fugazzotto). Defi nitions of Furcation Involvements. Diagnosing Premolar Furcation Involvements. Treatment of Class I Furcations. Treatment of Class II Furcations. Treatment of Class III Furcations. Maxillary vs. Mandibular Furcations. Selecting the Appropriate Treatment Modality. Conclusions. Chapter 4 The Role of Mucogingival Therapy (Paul Fugazzotto). Indications for Mucogingival Surgery. Nonattached Gingival Autografts. Lateral Pedicle Flaps. Connective-Tissue Grafts. Guided Tissue Regeneration. Indications for Emdogain Use. Constructing a Clinically Based Treatment Decision Tree. Mucogingival Therapy at the Time of Crown-Lengthening Surgery. Conclusions. Chapter 5 Restoration of the Periodontally Treated Tooth (Frederick Hains). The Feather. The Chamfer. The Shoulder. Periodontal Ramifi cations and Prosthetic Adaptations. Impressions. Chapter 6 Developing Treatment Algorithms for Restoration or Replacement of the Compromised Tooth (Paul Fugazzotto and Frederick Hains). Diagnostic Requirements. Assessing the Individual Tooth. The Ability to Safely Perform Crown-Lengthening Surgery. Endodontic Considerations. Implant Receptor Site Considerations. Assessing Cost-Benefi t Ratios. Complexity of Care. Predictability of Care. The Cost of Retreatment. Conclusion. Index.