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ESTHETIC DENTISTRY
- Microabrasion
- Safety precautions in Microabrasion
- Role of Hcl in Microabrasion
- Bleaching
- Bleaching
- Power bleaching
- Thermocatalytic technique in Power bleaching
- Home bleaching
- urea peroxide
- Home bleaching procedure
- Non- vital bleaching
- In office Non- vital bleaching
- Walking Bleach Technique
- Sequela of Internal bleaching
- Veneer
- Advantages of Indirect veneering
- Hue
- Metamerism
BASIC SCIENCES
- Percussion test
- Diffused-pulpal pain
- Restoration-Carving
- Spontaneous pulpal pain
- Lingering Pulpal pain
- Pulpal pain-stimuli
- Dentin Sensitivity
- Dentin-living tissue
- Occlusal groove carving
- Enamel Sensitivity
RESIN COMPOSITE RESTORATIONS
- Polymerization of chemically activated resins
- General considerations for acid etching
- Shade selection-30 seconds
- Shade selection-rapid
- Shade selection
- Shade selection-isolation
- Prophylatic paste
- C-factor
- Resin- modified glass ionomer
- Hybrid composite resin
- Silane coupling agent
- Visible light activated systems
- Polymerization of light activated systems
- Pattern of shrinkage of light activated resins
- Microfilled composites
- Advantages of light activated systems
- Dispensing the resin in light activated system
- Specifications for curing an increment
- Features of an etched enamel
- Dentin not etched in vital teeth
- Incremental build up of composites
- Wedging the composite restoration
DENTAL CARIES
- Extensive caries
- Varnish for caries prevention
- Initial caries and explorer
- Affected dentin-removal
- Lactobacilli-secondary invaders
- Incipient lesion-chalky white
- Critical pH
- Crystallization of tooth surface
- Plaque,caries and periodontal disease
- Adherance of microorganism to tooth
- Contact caries
ADHESION
- Adhesion/ Bonding
- Re-wetting
- Wet bonding
- Immediate bond strength
- Dentin bonding
- Acid etchant-concentration
- Acidic component of Dentin bonding agents
- Orthophosphoric acid etching
- Types of bonding
- Hybrid layer
- Amalgam bonding systems
- General considerations for acid etching
ENDODONTIC CLEANING AND SHAPING
- Importance of canal preparation
- Smooth broaches - not for checking canal patency
- Breakage of Barbed broach
- Cutting efficiency of files
- Importance of working length estimation
- Caution while using smaller size instruments
- Canal preparation in a wet environment
- Importance of initial apical file
- Importance of a flared canal
- Canal flaring with caution in small curved canals
- Problems faced in preparing small curved canals
- NickelTitanium files
- Importance of irrigants
- Hydrogen peroxide as an irrigant
- Hydrogen peroxide - not the last irrigant
- Chelating agents for sclerotic canals
- Caution - chelating agents
- Importance of inactivating EDTA
- Calcium hydroxide as an intracanal medicament
- Three dimensional seal
- Importance of Removing the smear layer
- Working length estimation in teeth with periapical radioluscency and resorption
- Tenderness on a recently instrumented tooth
- Apex locators cannot eliminate radiographs
- Importance of reference points
ENDODONTIC ACCESS CAVITY
- Need for an access cavity
- No Access through caries exposure
- No excess removal of coronal root dentin
- Difference between operative cavities and endodontic access cavities
- Early Symptomatic irreversible pulpitis
ENDODONTIC EMERGENCIES
- calcium hydroxide dressing
- Closed dressing
- Caution-Sodium hypochlorite
- Measures to prevent sodium hypochlorite accident
- X ray for a tooth adjacent to a fractured tooth
- Horizontally fractured teeth
- Immediate replantation of an avulsed tooth
- Transport medium for an avulsed tooth
- Sensitivity of a tooth during endo treatment
- Splinting of an avulsed tooth
- No emergency instrumentation in a canal with irreversible pulpitis
ENDODONTIC DIAGNOSIS
- Thermal pulp testing
- Importance of the responses to thermal tests
- Electric Pulp Tester
- Electric pulp tester - an important diagnostic aid.
- False positive response
- Radiographs as adjuncts
- Cracked tooth syndrome
- Reversible pulpitis , a symptom
- Normal pulp
- Necrotic pulp- negative to Electric pulp tester
- Pulp testing for acute apical periodontitis
- Difference between acute periradicular abscess and phoenix abscess
- Angulated x rays
- Radiograph for a pink tooth
- Hyperplastic pulpitis
- Caution- Sensitive tooth
- Discoloration of RC treated tooth.
- Case selection - post endodontic restoration
- Importance of periapical x rays in Endo
- Importance of a proper radiographic interpretation
AMALGAM
- Dental amalgam
- High copper amalgam
- Difference between spherical alloy and admixed alloy
- Delayed expansion
- Indications for amalgam restorations
- Resistance features for amalgam cavity
- Retentive features in an amalgam cavity
- Objectives for proximal extension
- Matrix
- Butt joint
- Factors dictating outline form
- Automatrix
- Amalgam Blues
- Pre carve burnishing
- Primary resistance features in the proximal box
- Basic requirements of an amalgam cavity
- Delayed expansion - How
- Mercury content - affects strength
- Objective of Amalgam condensation
- When to carve the restoration
- Pain in amalgam restored tooth
- Ditching of amalgam
ARMAMENTARIUM
- Types of instruments
- Instrument formula
- contra angling
OBTURATION OF ROOT CANAL
- Irrigation support instrumentation
- Calcium hydroxide as an intracanal dressing
- Solvents for GP
- Reason for not using GP as a sole filling material
- Composition of GP
- Disinfection of GP
- Rinsing disinfected GP with ethyl alcohol
- Rickert\'s sealer
- Beta phase of GP
- Reason for not using silver cones
- Disadvantage for Rickert sealer
- Reason for a radiopaque sealer
- Placement of accessory cones
- Reason for using accessory cones
- Length of insertion of spreader
- Placement of the master cone
- Fit of the master cone
- Voids in a root canal filling
- Auxillary cones for lateral condensation
- Importance of using a clean spreader
- Reason for using sealers along with GP
- Reason for using spreaders
- Importance of radiograph during master cone selection
- Preference for standardized cones
- Time for obturating a canal
- Importance of canal preparation for GP
- Advantages of using GP as obturating material
- Importance of obturating the prepared canal
PULPOTOMY AND APEXIFICATION
- Apical barrier technique
- Factors important for successful apexification
- Radiographic interpretation of apical closure
- Apexification
- Partial pulpotomy
- Root filling material in primary teeth
- Sequelae of ZnoE extending beyond the apex in primary teeth
- Importance of root length in primary teeth for pulpectomy
- Contra indication of GP for primary teeth
- Detection of failure of formacresol pulpotomy
- Placement of formacresol in the chamber
- Preparation of ideal concentration of formacresol for pulpotomy
- Uncontrolled hemorrhage in pulpotomy
- Hemorrhage control in pulpotomy
- Contraindications for formacresol pulpotomy in primary teeth
- Zones in foramcresol pulpotomy
- Evidences for success of pulpotomy in primary teeth
- Description of pulpotomy for primary teeth
- Contra indications for pulp capping
- MTA
- Location of pulp exposure and prognosis of pulp capping
- Pulp capping not indicated in exposed caries of primary teeth
- Pulp capping not indicated in calcified teeth
- Direct pulp capping
- Indirect pulp capping and reparative dentin formation
- Layers in active caries
- Objective of indirect pulp therapy
- Indirect pulp therapy
- Reliability of pulp testing on primary teeth
- Follow up changes after apexification
GLASS IONOMER CEMENT
- Functions of acids co polymered with polyacrylic acid
- Composition of set GIC
- Loosely bound and tightly bound water
- Cool glass slab for mixing GIC
- Glossy mix of GIC
- Matricing GIC restorations
- Protection of surface of set GIC
- Conditioning of tooth
- Requirements for a successful GIC restoration
- Silver alloy admix
- Difference between Cermet & Silver alloy admix
- Fluoride release more in admix cement
- Resin modified glass ionomer
- Fluoride release contributing caries inhibition
- Precautions while cementing with GIC
- GIC bonding to collagen
- Type I GIC - Luting
- Radiopacity of GI cements
- GI not used in stress bearing areas
- Type II GIC - Resorative cement
- Lining cements
- Sandwich Technique
- Clinical benefits of Sandwich Technique
- Sub base avoided in sandwich technique
- Resin modified GIC - not etched while laminating
LUTING CEMENTS
- Difference between the types of Znpo4 cement
- Working time & Setting time
- Mixing of Zinc phosphate cement
- Retention of Zinc phosphate cement
- Pseudoplasticity of polycarboxylate cement
- Biocompatibility of polycarboxylate
- Failure of polycarboxylate cement
- Dispensing the liquid of polycarboxylate
- Resin cements
- Flash removal in resin cements
- Curing of dual cure cements
- Zinc phosphate - Universal luting agent
- Properties of polycarboxylate cement
PIT AND FISSURE SEALANTS
- Why seal pits and fissures
- Objective of sealing pits and fissures
- Low viscosity sealants
- Light cure sealants
- Isolation during sealant placement
- Pumice prophylaxis
- Liquid acid etchants in pits and fissures
DENTAL PORCELAIN
- Classification of Dental porcelain
- Feldspar
- Ion exchange strengthens porcelain
- Thermal tempering
- Role of alumina
- Stress concentration in porcelain restorations
- Castable ceramics / Dicor
CASTING PROCEDURES
- Die spacers
- Use of sprue formers
- Guidelines to select the sprue former
- Direction of the sprue former
- Hot spot porosity
- Gas inclusion porosity
INLAY CASTING WAX
- Wax pattern
- Gum dammar - main ingredient of paraffin wax
- Need for contrast colored die
- Dry heat for inlay wax manipulation
- Manipulation of inlay wax
TARNISH AND CORROSION
- Tarnish
- Corrosion
- Electrochemical corrosion
- Sharp pain- contact of 2 different metallic restorations
- Concentration cell corrosion

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pre op IOPA showing dislodged crown with satisfactory obturation

This patient reported with dislodged crown in 12. Radiograph revealed satisfactory root canal therapy. Treatment plan included fiber post and core followed by zirconia ceramic crown.