Human enamel veneer restoration: an alternative technique to restore anterior primary teeth
Luciana Butini Oliveira, DDS, MSD / Tereza Keiko Tamay, DDS / Marta Dutra Machado Oliveira, DDS, MSD / Célia Regina Martins Delgado Rodrigues, DDS, MSD, PhD / Marcia Turolla Wanderley, DDS, MSD, PhD

Restoration of severely decayed primary teeth is a clinical challenge in Pediatric Dentistry. Among the restorative treatment options, the use of prefabricated crowns and resin composite restorations, either by means of direct or indirect techniques is mentioned in the literature. The purpose of this article is to describe the rehabilitation of primary anterior teeth in a 5-year-old patient. Dental treatment consisted on an anterior space maintainer prosthesis made with natural primary teeth, plus human dental enamel veneer (facet) restorations. The advantages of this technique are better esthetics and the natural enamel has physiologic wear and offers superficial smoothness and cervical adaptation compatible with those of the surrounding teeth.