Crown Recontouring Using a New Polishable Hybrid Composite Material

Visible light cured hybrid composite materials are assuming an increasingly important role in esthetic dentistry because they offer the combination of a high degree of polishability together with clinically proven durability and fracture resistance. Further, some hybrid materials may be used both anteriorly and posteriorly. Thus they are termed "universal" composite materials. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate two cases of esthetic conservative anterior crown reconstruction and a posterior composite restorative technique using a newly introduced polishable hybrid material (Prisma APH, L. D. Caulk Co., Milford, DE).