Modified Rubber Dam Technique

Equipment and basic techniques.

Modified rubber dam technique.

Technique for indirect restoration use of a modified rubber dam technique when bonding use of a modified rubber dam technique when bonding resin retained fixed partial dentures richard b. As shown by this technique the rubber dam retainer is modified and positioned on the tooth with subsequent placement of the dental dam material over the retainer and tooth. Rubber dam clamp and frame dam clamp and frame carried to mouth as one unit and placed clamp in place with four point contact and rubber tucked under the wings 20. Because young patients have smaller dental arches than adult patients holes should be punched in the dam accordingly for.

Variations with age 1. Camera courtesy dr shihi. In this technique perforations are made following the recommendations outlined in this article. This paper describes additional modified utilizations of rubber dam.

Simplified rubber dam techniques 3 4 though not new do not seem to be used widely to help reduce the problems asso ciated with preparing teeth for indirect restorations. Rubber dam users opted to manage difficult cases by sealing leaking rubber dam and to use the split dam technique. The light cured resin cement color 0 variolink veneer. The pur pose of this article is to describe the slit rubber dam technique used to simplify the preparatory phase of indirect restorative.

The rubber dam cannot be assembled since it is not known whether and how the tooth will be restored. The teeth were cleaned with pumice and water etched with 37 phosphoric acid condac 37 fgm for 30 s washed and dried. A contraindication to the use of the rubber dam is a patient s allergy to the chemical constituents of rub ber 5 11 in this circumstance albeit rare the teeth may be isolated with polythene sheets 22 which impose li. When multiple anterior restorations are being delivered a split dam technique may prove useful figure 22.

At least two teeth distal to the working area. A simplified adhesive system was applied excite f dsc ivoclar vivadent ag without photoactivation. The university of bristol dental school. Written and presented by richard elderton and ken marshall.

A modified rubber dam technique was performed for isolation. An easy way of placing the rubber dam in a neat and quick manner. 10 the split rubber dam.