Clinical

This case is proof that the plan you start with is not always the plan you finish with.

Your shade match was right. The patient still says it looks fake, and Dr. Susan McMahon can tell you which step lost it.

She had stopped letting anyone photograph her left side. For ten years, over a restoration with no decay and a sound margin. Dr. Susan McMahon rebuilt it in 45 minutes.

Three preps, three lengths, one clear winner. The Aurum Group shows what each one leaves the ceramist to work with.

e.max or zirconia is the easy half of the question. Which translucency, and where it sits in the tooth, is the half that decides whether anyone can tell.

One score per sextant, zero to three, six numbers total. Dr. Andrea Shepperson on the index that turns a vague impression of wear into something you can track.

Attrition and abrasion are physiological until they are not. Dr. Andrea Shepperson on the point where wear stops being age and starts being a diagnosis you owe the patient.