Color Changes of Pediatric Dental Bridges

Volume 2 - Issue 5

Baydaa Ali Othman Al Rawi¹* and Khalid Hasan Rashash²

Received:June 26, 2019;   Published: July 05, 2019

DOI: 10.32474/IPDOAJ.2018.02.000151

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Abstract

Dental technology that depended on the standardized lost-wax casting technology has been greatly improved with the introduction of dental CAD ⁄ CAM systems. The aim of the present study was to compare between the color changes of CAD/CAM acrylic and manually performed acrylic bridges used for pediatric patients. Forty study casts of children aged 2 - 4 years old of both genders, with prematurely lost one of the maxillary central incisors and the adjacent lateral incisor was carious and considered to be abutment tooth were involved in this study for construction of cantilever bridges. For each cast, two bridges were constructed; 1st one is CAD/CAM acrylic bridge and the other one is manually performed acrylic bridge. After immersing the bridges in saturated chocolate solution for different time intervals, color changes of the bridges were measured using 3Shape scanner system.

Keywords: Color; Changes; CAD/CAM; Bridges; Pediatric; Patient

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