Adhesive Dentistry for Beginners – PS002

"How long should I tell my patients their posterior composites will last?" - what a great question from dental student Emma Hutchison! As part of our new Protrusive Students segment we'll be bringing you monthly episodes packed with valuable insights, tips, and tricks specifically tailored to dental students like Emma. https://youtu.be/PP1XICgI-lg Watch PS002 on Youtube Whether you're navigating clinical rotations, honing your skills in phantom head, or gearing up for those daunting exams, we're here to support you every step of the way. And kicking off this segment, we're diving headfirst into the topic of adhesive dentistry! Link for further reading regarding the longevity of direct restorations – A retrospective clinical study on longevity of posterior composite and amalgam restorations - PubMed (nih.gov) The Art of Treatment Planning – The Art of Treatment Planning: Dental and Medical Approaches to the Face and Smile: Amazon.co.uk: Romano, Rafi: 9781850971979: Books Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Highlights of the episode:00:00 Adhesive dentistry03:41 Bonding systems07:00 Self-etch vs. total-etch vs. selective-etch14:38 Post-operative sensitivity16:10 Communicating risk with patients17:42 Polymerisation shrinkage19:38 The snowplow technique21:13 Instruments23:19 Consent25:30 Longevity28:05 Risk factors37:37 The next episode If you liked this episode, you will also like PDP077 I Can’t Believe This Sticks Click below for full episode transcript: Jaz's Introduction: So welcome to Protrusive Students Episode 2. In Episode 1, we introduce you to Emma Hutchison, who's the Protrusive Student. I'll be releasing one episode with her every month to answer questions from a dental student's perspective. And every month, we will release some of her revision notes, which are absolutely epic. Jaz’s Introduction:I'll check them myself on the Team Brandsim. All of these notes are going to go in the Crush Your Exam section of Protrusive Guidance. Protrusive Guidance, if you're brand new through a podcast is our little family. It's our little home on the internet via the web browser, or even it's native app via Android, iOS. All dentists and students can join it, but if you want to verify yourself as student, you have to email student@protrusive.co uk. So when you apply to join the network, which is on protrusive.App. Once you apply, you fill in some details, you explain that I'm a student, and then you should email student at protrusive. co. uk with some proof that you're a student. That way we will add you to our secret space called Protrusive Vault. So as part of your benefit of being a student on Protrusive Network. You had access to a paid space. There's also student clinical videos, which we'll be adding soon, as well as more episodes, just like this one. Hello, Protruserati. I'm Jaz Gulati. Protrusive Students is part of the Protrusive Dental Podcast. If you are a dental student, don't hoard this, share it with your colleagues. Eventually they're going to find out anyway. So you might as well be the person who shared it with them. I'm hoping that on Protrusive Guidance, we can help you on your journey. Look, there's almost a thousand dentists so far on Protrusive Guidance, and these are the nicest and geekiest dentists in the world. And by being someone who is a keen learner, who listens to this podcast, right? Not everyone does, right? Only those who self select themselves as a keen learner listens to stuff like this. And so it's time for you to meet your tribe and start learning and growing together. Now in this episode, which was supposed to be released in February, but life got busy with kids. It's actually Adhesive Dentistry. Questions from Emma Hutchison all around the topic of adhesive dentistry. Like for example, some of the things we're going to cover is the longevity of composites. This is such a fundamental thing.