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Protrusive Dental Pearl: where to place your grooves for crowns and bridges?
Crowns: place grooves mesial or distal, or mesial AND distal. Ideally in tooth and not in core material (we elaborate in the episode). Why mesial and distal for crowns and bridges? The forces will be transmitted bucco-lingually on a crown – therefore grooves perpendicular to this force vector to resist it would be mesial/distal.

How about for bridges then?

For conventional bridges the grooves are placed buccal or lingual, or buccal AND lingual.

This is because the forces are now acting antero-posteriorly on the bridge via forces on the pontic(s). The buccal/lingual grooves will resist antero-posterior forces.

Prof Tipton and I discuss:

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