FIXED RESTORATIONS

Prof Dr Irena Sailer received her Dr med dent degree from the University of Tübingen, Germany (1997/1998). She received an Assistant Professorship at the Clinic of Fixed and Removable Prosthodontics and Dental Material Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland (2003), where from 2010 she was an Associate Professor. In 2007, Prof Dr Sailer was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Biomaterials and Biomimetics, Dental College, New York University, NY, USA. Since 2009 she has held an Adjunct Associate Professorship at the Department of Preventive and Restorative Sciences, Robert Schattner Center, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA (Head: Prof Dr MB Blatz). Prof Dr Sailer is Head of the Division of Fixed Prosthodontics and Biomaterials at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. In 2019, she received an Honorary Skou Professorship at Aarhus University, Denmark. She is a Specialist for Prosthodontics (Swiss Society for Reconstructive Dentistry), and holds a Certificate of focused activities in Dental Implantology (WBA) of the Swiss Society for Dentistry. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the European Association of Osseointegration (EAO), Vice President of the European Academy of Esthetic Dentistry (EAED), member of the Swiss Society of Reconstructive Dentistry, the Education Committee of the International Team for Implantology (ITI), and the Greater New York Academy of Prosthodontics (GNYAP), and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Prosthodontics. She is widely published and holds several patents on esthetic coatings of dental/medical devices, and on a digital dental splint.

MDT Vincent Fehmer received his dental technical education and degree in Stuttgart, Germany, in 2002. From 2002 to 2003 he performed fellowships in the UK and the USA in Oral Design certified dental technical laboratories. From 2003 to 2009 he worked at an Oral Design certified laboratory in Berlin, Germany, at Zahntechnik Mehrhof. In 2009 he received his MDT qualification in Germany. From 2009 to 2014 he was the chief dental technician at the Clinic for Fixed and Removable Prosthodontics in Zurich, Switzerland. Since 2015 he has been dental technician at the Clinic for Fixed Prothodontics and Biomaterials in Geneva, Switzerland, and runs his own laboratory in Lausanne, Switzerland. MDT Fehmer is a Fellow of the International Team for Implantology, an Active member of the European Academy of Esthetic Dentistry (EAED), and a member of the Oral Design group, the European Association of Dental Technology (EADT), and German Society of Esthetic Dentistry (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ästhetische Zahnheilkunde, DGÄZ). He is active as a speaker at a national and international Level. MDT Fehmer has received honors including the prize for the Best Master Program of the Year (Berlin, Germany). He has published numerous articles within the field of fixed prothodontics and digital dental technology. He also serves as reviewer for several international journals and is a section editor for the International Journal of Prosthodontics.

Prof Dr Bjarni Pjetursson received his DDS from the University of Iceland in 1990. From 1990 to 2000 he worked as a general dentist in his private clinic in Iceland. In 2000 he started his postgraduate training in Periodontology and Implant Dentistry at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He received his specialist certificate (EFP & SSP) and Masters of Advanced Studies in Periodontology and Doctorate in Dentistry from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern. From 2003 to 2005 he did his postgraduate training in Prosthodontics at the University of Bern. From 2005 he was Assistant Professor and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Periodontology and Fixed Prosthodontics, University of Bern, and from 2009 to 2014 the Dean of the Faculty of Odontology, University of Iceland. Presently he is a Professor and Chairman of the Department of Reconstructive Dentistry, University of Iceland, and a Titular Professor at the Division of Fixed Prosthodontics and Biomaterials at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Prof Dr Pjetursson is a board member of EAO, an ITI Fellow, Associate Editor of the International Journal of Prosthodontics, and member of the editorial board of Clinical Oral Implants Research. He has published extensively in and given over 700 lectures in 50 countries around the world. His research interests are clinical studies in implant dentistry and evidenced-based evaluation of different treatment modalities in implant and prosthetic dentistry.

Contents
Part I. Basics

Current restorative materials
Patient-related factors for material selection
Technical factors
Diagnostics
Decision-making criteria for replacing the missing tooth
Tooth preparation: current concepts for material selection
Provisional restorations
Impression techniques
Material-related cementation procedures
Fixation of implant-supported restorations
The titanium-base abutment concept
Material selection flowcharts
Cementation flowcharts

Part II. Clinical procedures step-by-step

Minimally invasive restorations(veneers)
Minimally invasive restorations (resin-bonded fixed dental prostheses [RBFDPs])
Defect-oriented restorations
Conventional single crowns (SCs)
Tooth-supported all-ceramic single crowns (SCs), fixed dental prostheses (FDPs), and a removable telescopic restoration
Implant-supported single crowns (SCs)
Implant-supported restorations
Maintenance

Part III. Long-term outcomes of fixed restorations

Tooth-supported veneers
Tooth-supported inlays and onlays
Tooth-supported SCs
Endocrowns
Tooth-supported conventional multiple-unit FDPs
Tooth-supported cantilever FDPs
Resin-bonded fixed dental prostheses (RBFDPs)
Implant-supported SCs
Implant-supported FDPs
Implant-supported cantilever FDPs
Combined tooth-implant-supported FDPs

Part IV. Avoiding and managing complications

Success of tooth- and implant-supported restorations
Tooth-supported restorations
Implant-supported restorations