A Provisional Temporary Restoration is like a prototype. It allow the dentist and patient to evaluate the aesthetic considerations, occlusion functions.
- Temporize for healing of the tissue and protection of the prepared tooth
- Give patient an idea of the final restoration
- A tool for the lab
- Help in preventing the movement of the prepared tooth or teeth and to protect the tooth
- Great for implants to achieve desired emergence profile of tissue
- To see if the function, esthetic, vertical dimension, incisal edge position have met the expectations
- Great for implants to achieve desired emergence profile of tissue
- Esthetics determines size and shape changes
- Check phonetics (speech)
- Test, fine tune current temporary, possible adds on to current temporary or possibly make new one to the new changes made
- Should be used as a surgical stint for implant placement, tissue sculpting (gingival plasty).