15 Years Control of Fiber Reenforced Composite Fixed Partial Dentures

Launched by BNM CLINIC AND RESEARCH · May 4, 2016

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ClinConnect Summary

As of January 1999, FRC FDPs are offered as alternative to other conventional therapy options at the Department where the study was conducted. Between June-1999 and June-2000, 58 patients aged between 33 and 62 years old (25 females, 33 males, mean age: 47) received 65 indirect posterior FRC FDPs. Before enrolment in the trial, all patients were provided with a written informed consent Information was given to each patient regarding the alternative treatment options. The inclusion criteria were as follows: all subjects were required to be at least 18 years old, able to read and sign the inf...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion criteria:
• • All subjects were required to be at least 18 years old, able to read and sign the informed consent document
• • Physically and psychologically able to tolerate conventional restorative procedures
• • Having no active periodontal or pulpal diseases
• • Having no primary caries
• • Not allergic to resin-based materials
• • Not pregnant or nursing
• • Having antagonist teeth opposing the FRC FDP to be restored
• • Willing to return for follow-up examinations as outlined by the investigators.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Patients who had more absent teeth than the tooth to be replaced in the rest of the dentition or those having diastemas were not excluded.