Clinical experience, misunderstood concepts and frequently asked questions. Notes from many years of practice.
Clear aligners are custom-made removable trays, worn 20 to 22 hours a day, that move teeth in small stages; at Mosdent treatment usually takes 6 to 18 months.
Invisalign is a clear-aligner brand of Align Technology. At Mosdent, treatment starts with a digital scan and ClinCheck plan and usually takes 6 to 18 months.
No study shows Invisalign (Align Technology), Orthero (Istanbul) or ClearCorrect (Straumann) to be clinically superior; their aligner materials differ.
A zirconia crown is a metal-free crown milled from zirconium dioxide; five-year survival as a single crown was 96.8% in a 64-study meta-analysis.
Emax is a material, lithium disilicate glass-ceramic. A veneer is a technique. Here is the difference, measured in millimetres of tooth removed and in published ten-year survival data.
Composite bonding is tooth-coloured resin shaped on a tooth in one visit. Composite veneers pooled 88% survival over 24 to 97 months; chips can be repaired.
PFM means porcelain fused to metal, also called a metal-ceramic crown; three systematic reviews report five-year single-crown survival of 94.7% to 97.1%.
What your temporary crown is doing and how long the published data says it lasts: long-term temporaries followed for a median of 362 days recorded a 14.1% fracture rate and 18.1% decementation. Plus what to do if it comes off far from the clinic that fitted it.
Where Straumann implants are made, what the body and surface are, and what the data reports: Kaplan-Meier survival at ten years was 98.9% for titanium-zirconium and 95.8% for commercially pure titanium. Plus how warranty and traceability work once you fly home.
