Dentes Posteriores: Critérios Utilizados num Caso Clínico

Abstract

At reporting of any clinical case, it always would be interesting to point out the many reasons that gave support to the chosen treatment options, during all the developed steps, as expose the reasons that were used as a base to the choice of the employed procedures. With this philosophical focus, it is here presented a clinical case, involving substitution of amalgam by composite resin, in two upper left tooth from the posterior region (24 and 25), realized in a male patient that was treated in the Pos-graduation Clinic, at Bauru Dental School - USP. In the two involved premolars, the defective amalgam was substituted by Filtek Supreme, a composite resin, after realization of a general clinical evaluation, followed by anamnesis and analysis of the respective initial radiographies. In the way, besides a detailed description of clinical case, it were pointed out the reasons that served as basis to the choices of different procedures, beginning with explanation of why composite was elected to substitute amalgam.