Success with Resin Bonded Bridges – PDP132

Do you believe that Resin Bonded Bridges are exclusively a temporary or short-term solution? Lots of our colleagues around the world mistakenly believe this. It’s not a secret that I am a fan of this treatment modality—I want to break down the misconceptions about them because IN THE RIGHT CASE they can be a very predictable tooth replacement option. In this episode, Dr. Salman Pirmohamed shared successes and failures and what we can learn from them to improve our clinical protocols from abutment selection to adhesive techniques. Claim 75 minutes CE on Protrusive App. https://youtu.be/rKJyqcb6uqI Check out this full episode on YouTube The Protrusive Dental Pearl: Always visualise your path of insertion – do you need to do some additional prep to get a more favourable path of insertion? It’s not just for dentures! For any indirect crowns/bridges, it is important to assess for a path of insertion. Make a visualisation of this – you may have to prep more or prepare the adjacent tilted teeth to allow for a suitable path of insertion sometimes. Salman’s Webinar on Sunday 4th Dec LIVE: https://buy.stripe.com/4gw14Pb8Q47Q8yk5kk Highlight of this episode: 1:48 The Protrusive Dental Pearl 3:17  Dr. Salman Pirmohamed’s Introduction  8:16 Resin-bonded Bridges being underutilized 9:43 Resin-bonded bridges over the years and its Protocol 12:18 RBB – functional for patients? 17:26 Case Selection Criteria 20:25 Case Number 1 22:43 Case Number 2 23:16 Dahl Technique on RBB 24:57 Cantilever as the standard design of choice for RBB 27:40 Case Number 3 29:25 Case Number 4 32:47 Mesial cantilever vs Distal Cantilever 37:34 RBB Lab Prescription 39:43 Incisal Overlap 42:06 Pontic Design ideal for RBB 47:48 RBB Clinical Protocol 1:00:09 Zirconia RBB protocols 1:06:46 Periodontal Splinting 1:15:21 Two failures with Resin-bonded bridges Have a read about this evidence-based literature as referenced by Dr. Salman Survival-characteristics-of-771-resin-retained-bridges-provided-at-a-UK-dental-teaching-hospitalDownload Also, check out this paper written by Dr. Jaz Gulati Resin-Bonded-Bridges-−-the-Problem-or-the-Solution Part 1Download Resin-Bonded-Bridges-−-the-Problem-or-the-Solution-Part-2Download If you loved this episode, you might also love this Group Function talking about Dahl Technique and ‘Maryland Bridges’