CLINICAL RESEARCH

Biologically oriented preparation

technique (BOPT): a new
approach for prosthetic restoration
of periodontically healthy teeth
Ignazio Loi, MD, DDS
Private Practice, Cagliari, Italy

Antonello Di Felice, CDT

Private Practice, Rome, Italy

Correspondence to: Dr Ignazio Loi

Via Alghero 4, 09127, Cagliari, Italy;

Tel: +39 070 670365; E-mail: loi.ig@tiscali.it

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Abstract terior areas with ceramometal and

zirco- nia restorations, achieving high
Tooth preparations for fixed prosthetic
quality clinical and esthetic results in
restorations can be done in different
terms of soft tissue stability at the
ways, basically of two kinds:
prosthetic/tis- sue interface, both in the
preparation with a defined margin and
short and in the long term (clinical
the so-called vertical preparation or
follow-up up to fifteen years). Moreover,
feather edge. The latter was originally
the BOPT tech- nique, if compared to
used for prosthetics on teeth treated
other preparation techniques (chamfer,
with resective surgery for periodontal
shoulder, etc), is simpler and faster
disease. In this article, the author
when in preparation impression taking,
presents a prosthetic tech- nique for
temporary crowns’ relining and creating
periodontally healthy teeth using
the crowns’ profiles up to the final
feather edge preparation in a flap- less
prosthetic restoration. (Eur J Esthet
approach in both esthetic and pos-
Dent 2013;8:10–23)

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