Dental inlays are very conservative dental restorations used to repair the surfaces of posterior teeth. These restorations are usually made because the substrates have extensive caries, fillings, or large fractured fissures with good remaining tooth structure.
It is a new and conservative dental restoration treatment of aesthetic dentistry, which aims to restore affected molars, by caries or by an invasive restoration, with a very aesthetic and functional ceramic restoration, which gives greater durability to treatments, reducing thus filtrations and managing to preserve the patient’s dental piece.
Dental inlays are very conservative treatments whose main objective is to fully maintain the remaining healthy dental structure, removing only the affected dental part.
This technique is performed only on molars and premolars. With these restorations function is returned to the teeth avoiding fracture, thus being more resistant than direct resins and achieving high aesthetics.
The indications for dental inlays are specific and the molar or premolar to be restored must have a 70% healthy remaining tooth . Patients should practice good oral hygiene and have a low caries rate.
The materials for the realization of the inlays are ceramic materials to generate excellent resistance, adaptation and aesthetics.
These restorations have many benefits, among which we can point out:
Recover the functionality of the affected teeth
They have greater resistance than resins
Excellent adaptation, avoiding filtration with magnificent aesthetics