Posterior Porcelain Onlay

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Posterior Porcelain Onlay

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Patients will pay for the best quality dentistry they can afford, providing the choice is offered and the quality made evident. Following a verbal explanation of the choice between composite or porcelain for a 'white filling', patients often choose the composite, as in their minds both are 'white fillings' and this is the cheaper option. However, after watching a video more oprt for the porcelain as the higher quality is made evident.

Posterior Porcelain Onlay

Clinical need for treatment

  • Replacement of old amalgam restoration with highly aesthetic porcelain restoration.

Video procedure

  • overview of tooth
  • silicone impression
  • porcelain shade selection
  • view of onlay
  • application and light curing (setting) of bonding agent
  • fitting of onlay with permanent cement
  • light curing (setting) of cement
  • finished restoration

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