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POSTERIOR RESIN‐BASED COMPOSITE RESTORATIONS: A SECOND OPINION
Author(s) -
Croll Theodore P.,
Cavanaugh Richard R.,
Pedley R Denison
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of esthetic and restorative dentistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.919
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1708-8240
pISSN - 1496-4155
DOI - 10.1111/j.1708-8240.2002.tb00526.x
Subject(s) - slowness , enamel paint , crown (dentistry) , dentin , composite number , posterior teeth , dentistry , materials science , geology , composite material , medicine , seismology
“The direction of the decay may be superficial or deep, as the extent of caries varies not only in different teeth but in die different tissues of an individual tooth. The structure of the enamel and dentine differs very much in density, and this fact largely accounts for the slowness, or rapidity of caries; the tissue with the greatest amount of organic material is more rapidly disorganised, so that it is not uncommon to find, in preparing a cavity for filling, that a comparatively small hole in the enamel leads down to a large unexpected, or at all events previously unknown, excavation in the dentine. In some cases the decay is so rapid that the first intimation is the collapse of a large portion of the crown, when the dentine below may be found to be a caseous mass…”