Posterior provisionals must balance durability and function with speed and efficiency at the chair. Unlike anterior provisionals, which emphasize esthetics, posterior provisionals are focused on proper occlusion, marginal integrity, and strength to withstand chewing forces. This course provides dental assistants and team members with the step-by-step skills to confidently fabricate, trim, and polish posterior provisionals that deliver comfort and function until the final restoration is placed.

The comfort and convenience patients experience during the impression taking process become irrelevant if they must endure the process again because the impressions are inaccurate, unstable, or deformed.

Talking to patients about the steps during the restorative phase and giving reassurance that the provisional restorations are a blueprint for our final restorations. We will need their help in the shade selection and functional aspect in this stage of the restoration. Choosing a provisional material that not only blends with the natural shade of the teeth is easy, choosing a material that mimics natural tooth structure, polishes well and has an appearance of translucency and vitality but performs with strength and outstanding elastic modulus.

With its tooth-colored shade and preformed anatomical shape, Protemp Crown material provides a temporary restoration with natural-looking esthetics.