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Modern Operative Dentistry

Principles for Clinical Practice

  • Provides key theoretical knowledge
  • Explains the use of classic and new restorative materials
  • Describes and illustrates procedures step by step

Part of the book series: Textbooks in Contemporary Dentistry (TECD)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
  2. Diagnosis and Treatment Planning

    • Carlos Rocha Gomes Torres, Anna Greta Barbe, Michael Johannes Noack, Michael Jochen Wicht
    Pages 1-42
  3. Ergonomics Principles Applied to the Dental Clinic

    • Karen Cristina Kazue Yui, Cristiani Siqueira Barbosa Lencioni, Eliel Soares Orenha, Carlos Rocha Gomes Torres
    Pages 43-76
  4. Cariology

    • Taciana Marco Ferraz Caneppele, Alessandra Bühler Borges, Carlos Rocha Gomes Torres, José Roberto Rodrigues, Thomas Attin
    Pages 77-121
  5. Instruments and Equipments

    • Sergio Eduardo de Paiva Gonçalves, Cesar Rogério Pucci, Carlos Rocha Gomes Torres, Anuradha Prakki
    Pages 123-165
  6. Nomenclature and Classification of Cavities and Tooth Preparations

    • Carlos Rocha Gomes Torres, Ana Carolina Botta
    Pages 167-182
  7. General Principles of Tooth Preparation and Carious Tissue Removal

    • Carlos Rocha Gomes Torres, Falk Schwendicke
    Pages 183-221
  8. Isolation of the Operating Field

    • Alessandra Bühler Borges, Carlos Rocha Gomes Torres, Ana Raquel Benetti, Azam Bakhshandeh
    Pages 223-260
  9. Matrix and Wedge Systems

    • Cesar Rogério Pucci, Carlos Rocha Gomes Torres, Ali Ibrahim Abdalla
    Pages 261-288
  10. Protection of the Dentin-Pulp Complex

    • Adriana Cristina de Mello Torres, Ana Paula Martins Gomes, Claudio Hideki Kubo, Carlos Rocha Gomes Torres
    Pages 289-333
  11. Tooth Preparations for Amalgam Restorations

    • Carlos Rocha Gomes Torres, Deepak Mehta
    Pages 335-371
  12. Amalgam Restorations

    • Carlos Rocha Gomes Torres, Shankargouda Patil, Graziela Ribeiro Batista
    Pages 373-409
  13. Extensive Amalgam Restorations

    • Carlos Rocha Gomes Torres, Shilpa Hanamaraddi Bhandi, João Cândido de Carvalho
    Pages 411-433
  14. Light-Curing Units

    • Nicola Scotti, Andrea Baldi, Edoardo Alberto Vergano, Claudio Hideki Kubo, Carlos Rocha Gomes Torres
    Pages 435-464
  15. Composite Restoration on Anterior Teeth

    • Carlos Rocha Gomes Torres, Rayssa Ferreira Zanatta
    Pages 465-575
  16. Composite Restoration on Posterior Teeth

    • Carlos Rocha Gomes Torres, Marcelo Balsamo, Satoshi Imazato
    Pages 577-630
  17. Preventive Measures and Minimally Invasive Restorative Procedures

    • Alessandra Bühler Borges, Carlos Rocha Gomes Torres, Nadine Schlueter
    Pages 631-666
  18. Aesthetic Veneers: What Are They and How to Handle Them?

    • Maria Filomena Rocha Lima Huhtala, Clovis Pagani, Carlos Rocha Gomes Torres, Pekka Kalevi Vallittu, Jukka Pekka Matinlinna
    Pages 667-690
  19. Dentin Hypersensitivity and Cracked Teeth

    • Eduardo Bresciani, Carlos Rocha Gomes Torres, Annette Wiegand
    Pages 691-704
  20. Back Matter

    Pages 705-715

About this book

This book provides the theoretical knowledge required by students when learning how to diagnose oral diseases, plan treatment, and perform various types of dental restoration. It is also useful for clinicians wishing to update their treatment skills and broaden their understanding operative dentistry.
Adopting an evidence-based approach, and in accordance with the philosophy of minimally invasive dentistry, it explains in detail the use of both classic and new restorative materials in various clinical situations. It also discusses the principles of smile analysis, as well the technique for esthetic composite restorations on posterior and anterior teeth, including direct and indirect veneers. In addition to richly illustrated, step-by-step descriptions of procedures, it offers essential information on basic topics, such as dental instruments and equipment, nomenclature and general principles of tooth preparation, isolation of the operating field, matrix and wedge systems,light curing, and pulpal protection. Furthermore it addresses the diagnosis of dental caries and tooth sensitivity of non-carious origin, like dentin hypersensitivity, dental erosion and cracked tooth syndrome, together with their treatment options. Also explaining the fundamental ergonomic principles of clinical practice, the book enables undergraduate students to embark on a successful professional career. 


Reviews

“It offers essential information about amalgam restoration, composite restorations, preventive measures and minimally invasive restorative procedures, aesthetic veneers, dentin hypersensitivity and cracked teeth. This book is written in a very comprehensible style, easy to understand, it is abundantly illustrated and it is very useful for young doctors and all those who want to improve their work protocol adapted to the most modern principles and technologies.” (Iulia Ciolachi, Stomatology EDU Journal, Vol. 7 (4), 2020)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Science and Technology, São Paulo State University – UNESP, São Paulo, Brazil

    Carlos Rocha Gomes Torres

About the editor

Carlos Rocha Gomes Torres is a specialist in operative dentistry who is currently a professor on the undergraduate and graduate programs in Operative Dentistry at the Institute of Science and Technology, São Paulo State University - UNESP, Brazil. After qualifying as a dentist he gained his PhD in Operative Dentistry from the Institute of Science and Technology, UNESP, and then undertook postdoctoral research at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. He subsequently completed his Habilitation in Operative Dentistry and was appointed Associate Professor of Operative Dentistry, Occlusion, and Dental Sculpture in the Institute of Science and Technology at UNESP. Dr. Torres holds proficiency certification in Laser Dentistry (CFO, Brazil). He has been the lead or co-author of more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals, as well as the editor of two books.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Modern Operative Dentistry

  • Book Subtitle: Principles for Clinical Practice

  • Editors: Carlos Rocha Gomes Torres

  • Series Title: Textbooks in Contemporary Dentistry

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31772-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-31771-3Published: 02 January 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-31774-4Published: 26 August 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-31772-0Published: 14 December 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2524-4612

  • Series E-ISSN: 2524-4620

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 715

  • Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 703 illustrations in colour

  • Additional Information: Originally published by Santos Editora, Curitiba, Brasil, 2013

  • Topics: Dentistry, Ceramics, Glass, Composites, Natural Materials

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eBook USD 109.00
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Softcover Book USD 139.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 199.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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