The complete digital workflow in fixed prosthodontics: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The continuous development in dental processing ensures new opportunities in the field of fixed prosthodontics in a complete virtual environment without any physical model situations. The aim was to compare fully digitalized workflows to conventional and/or mixed analog-digital workflows for the treatment with tooth-borne or implant-supported fixed reconstructions.

Methods

A PICO strategy was executed using an electronic (MEDLINE, EMBASE, Google Scholar) plus manual search up to 2016-09-16 focusing on RCTs investigating complete digital workflows in fixed prosthodontics with regard to economics or esthetics or patient-centered outcomes with or without follow-up or survival/success rate analysis as well as complication assessment of at least 1 year under function.

SUBMITTER: Joda T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5606018 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature