This easy-to-digest book offers expert guidance in each of the procedures involved in preparing for and placing indirect restorations. Written for students and novices, it walks readers through the steps of tooth preparation, shade taking, fabrication of the provisional restoration, impression taking, assessment of the occlusion (with and without an articulator), and crown placement. Clinical advice and expert tips for managing each phase make this book a valuable adjunct to the training one receives in dental school.

160 pp; 312 illus; (mostly color);

ISBN: 978-1-85097-078-1; 9781850970781;

Contents
1. Introduction
2. Indications for Crowns
3. Retention of Cores
4. Choosing the Right Crown
5. Tooth Preparation
6. Shade Taking, Provisional Crowns, Impressions and Cementation
7. Managing the Occlusion
8. Short Clinical Crowns
9. When and How to Articulate

Foreword
The successful provision of indirect restrictions is demanding. A diversity of skills, knowledge and experience are required to consistently succeed in this important aspect of clinical practice. Mediocrity in indirect restorations is tantamount to inviting early failure, with the risk of substantial damage to the remaining tooth tissues and the dentition.

Interestingly, failure is the starting point of this latest addition to the Quintessentials series—most indirect restorations replacing failed restorations. Against this backdrop, the authors take the reader through the indications and the many, varied intricacies integral to the provision of successful indirect restorations. The text, as has come to be expected of new volumes in the popular Quintessentials series, is generously illustrated and peppered with invaluable tips and guidance, tempered by the authors’ special interests and expertise in the field.

As indicated by the authors in their preface, this book is not intended to be a comprehensive tome; it is a succinct text highlighting key considerations, knowledge and understanding for the busy practitioner, let alone the student wishing to avoid information overload. Once read, this book should not be put aside, but placed together with other Quintessentials volumes and similar books for ready reference and guidance.

Hopefully, this book will give clinicians new insight and pointers to enhanced success, if not excellence in indirect restorations. This is a handsome, easy-to-read book, promoting a modern evidence-based approach to indirect restorations.

Congratulations to the authors for a job well done.

Nairn Wilson
Editor-in-Chief

Preface
This book is written to guide practitioners in preparing teeth for indirect restorations, and is designed to help senior undergraduates and recently qualified practitioners in constructing crowns for their patients. Many well written textbooks on this subject already exist, and thus this volume should not be seen as the definitive work. However, by contrast, it includes clinical advice and many tips for practising dentists. We have not included conventional or minimal preparation bridgework as there are other books in the Quintessentials series covering these topics. But many of the principles in this book can be applied to these areas.

On reading this book the reader will be able to:
• Plan indirect restorations taking into consideration the importance of previous caries experience. The reasons for placing indirect restorations will be reappraised.
• Consider and review the indications for indirect full and partial coverage crowns.
• Appreciate how to place reliable and retentive cores.
• Consider what factors are important when choosing the type of crown and how to select the best materials to use.
The book will also:
• Describe the common tooth preparations for crowns and assess how to achieve the best result.
• Describe how to take a shade, make provisional restorations, record impressions and explain the value of taking interocclusal records.
• Consider the definitions of occlusion and assess the relevance when making crowns.
• Review the problems associated with short clinical crowns and how to manage them.
• Describe when and how to use an articulator.

Reviews
“As an overview of indirect restorations this book is excellent, and the clinical hints are invaluable. It gives the practitioner confidence to apply its teachings into practice and stimulates the reader to research further texts on this topic.”
Rachel Smith
Australian Dental Association Victorian Branch Newsletter 2008