What are the different types of cavity?

Table of Contents:

1. What are the different types of cavity?
2. What are the cavity classifications?
3. What are Class V cavities?
4. What is a complex filling?
5. How do you prepare a Class 2 cavity?

What are the different types of cavity?

The Major Types of Cavities

• Root cavities – Occurs when cavities form on the root surfaces of teeth.
• Pit and fissure cavities – Areas of decay in the narrow grooves on the biting surfaces of molars.
• Smooth-surface cavities – Slow-growing areas of decay on the flat, smooth surfaces of teeth.

What are the cavity classifications?

What are the different cavity classifications?

• Class I cavities are in the pits and fissures (cracks) in your teeth.
• Class II cavities are on the sides and chewing surfaces of your premolars and molars in the back of your mouth.
• Class III cavities involve the sides of your incisors and canine teeth in the front of your mouth (which you use to bite and chew food).

What are Class V cavities?

Class V cavities Class V lesions occur on the cervical 1/3 of the labial surfaces of incisors and canines; and on the buccal and lingual surfaces of premolars and molars. They take place under two case scenarios; through the formation of caries or through the loss of tooth substance due to abrasion/erosion.

What is a complex filling?

A filling is more complex when 2 or more surfaces need to be filled. The material used is either a composite or amalgam (silver). This type of filling takes approx. ... 45 minutes.

How do you prepare a Class 2 cavity?

Class II amalgam

1. Tooth preparation class II amalgam.
2. INITIAL TOOTH PREPARATION Mesio-occlusal class II preparation • Occlusal outline form: Enter the pit nearest the involved proximal surface with a punch cut using a No. ...
3. 3 • Proper depth of the initial entry cut is 1.
   
   

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