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Long-term survival and reasons for failure in direct anterior composite restorations: A systematic review
Author(s) -
YashkumarRajendra Shah,
VijaykumarL Shiraguppi,
BharatAnantrao Deosarkar,
UtkarshaRajendra Shelke
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of conservative dentistry/journal of conservative dentistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 0974-5203
pISSN - 0972-0707
DOI - 10.4103/jcd.jcd_527_21
Subject(s) - dentistry , medicine , resin composite , anterior teeth , orthodontics , composite number , materials science , composite material
This study investigated the clinical longevity of direct anterior composite restorations. Clinical studies exploring survival of anterior light-cured composite restorations with minimum of 2 years of follow-up were screened and reasons related to failure of direct anterior composite restorations were noted. PubMed, LILIACS, ProQuest, CENTRAL, and MEDLINE databases were searched with no restriction on date. Articles obtainable in the English language solely were enclosed during this study. Furthermore, articles to which reviewers had access were solely enclosed in ProQuest. Reference lists of eligible studies were hand searched. Initially, four reviewers screened the titles/abstracts of 947 studies. Out of those studies, a total of 47 articles were selected for full text reading, from which 25 studies were selected for qualitative synthesis. The studies that were enclosed evaluated the clinical performance of composite class III and class IV restorations (11 studies), which were placed due to caries, fracture, or replaced old restorations, veneers and full coverage restorations placed for esthetic reasons (9 studies), restorations in worn teeth (4 studies) with one study including combination of three type of studies listed above. A total of 75,637 restorations were evaluated and annual failure rates were in the range of 0% to 27.11% with survival rates ranging from 28.6% to 100%. Class III restorations had lower failure rates than alternative restorations. Fracture was the main cause of failure of restorations. The factors related to failure of restoration were adhesive technique, type of composite resin used, replacement of restoration first placed, and time required to make up the restorations.

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