Crown Lengthening – How it WILL Enhance Your Restorative Results

Whether you are doing crown lengthening procedures yourself or referring them out to a colleague, this live webinar will help you to better understand and deal with common everyday restorative challenges. Discussion will include diagnostic criteria, treatment choices, the role of provisionals, methods for achieving patient comfort, and obtaining the required “Biologic Width”.

A treatment planning section will share clinical and radiographic examples to expose clinicians to the types of cases that have benefited from using this approach, and give each participant the chance to see where these principles can be applied to actual cases. There also will be time for questions via “Chat”.

Please note this live, interactive webinar will have an Exit Exam for those that need it for CE requirements. The Exit Exam will be provided at the close of the webinar with the evaluation survey.

After attending this live dental CEU webinar, your continuing education verification form will be available in your online account within 2-3 business days. Once issued, you can access your CE verification form at any time.

1. Crown Lengthening Indications
   1. Fractured cusps
   2. caries
   3. Previously placed deep margins
   4. Esthetic applications
2. Relationship of bone to crown margin- a key parameter
3. Biologic width – how it helps with decision making
4. Ferrule effect – to extract or treat?
5. Red flags
   1. Red gums
   2. Sore gums
   3. Sensitive teeth
   4. Radiographic appearance – what can we learn from the x-ray?
6. Decision making for anterior esthetic applications
7. Treatment planning – case examples

Course Objectives

At the completion of this course the participants should be able to:

1. Understand indications and limitations for Crown Lengthening
2. Considerations for patient comfort
3. How to save chair time and frustrations
4. Understand causes of red gum tissue and how to prevent it
5. Learn how to make predictable impressions every time