Modern Operative Dentistry

Carlos Rocha Gomes Torres is a specialist in operative dentistry who is currently a professor on the undergraduate and graduate programs in Operative Dentistry at the Institute of Science and Technology, São Paulo State University - UNESP, Brazil. After qualifying as a dentist he gained his PhD in Operative Dentistry from the Institute of Science and Technology, UNESP, and then undertook postdoctoral research at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. He subsequently completed his Habilitation in Operative Dentistry and was appointed Associate Professor of Operative Dentistry, Occlusion, and Dental Sculpture in the Institute of Science and Technology at UNESP. Dr. Torres holds proficiency certification in Laser Dentistry (CFO, Brazil). He has been the lead or co-author of more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals, as well as the editor of two books.

“It offers essential information about amalgam restoration, composite restorations, preventive measures and minimally invasive restorative procedures, aesthetic veneers, dentin hypersensitivity and cracked teeth. This book is written in a very comprehensible style, easy to understand, it is abundantly illustrated and it is very useful for young doctors and all those who want to improve their work protocol adapted to the most modern principles and technologies.” (Iulia Ciolachi, Stomatology EDU Journal, Vol. 7 (4), 2020)

• 1. Diagnosis and Treatment Planning.- 2. Ergonomics Principles Applied to the Dental Clinic.- 3. Cariology.- 4. Instruments and Equipments.- 5. Nomenclature and classification of cavities and tooth preparation.- 6. General Principles of Tooth Preparation and Carious Tissue Removal.- 7. Isolation of the Operating Field.- 8. Matrix and Wedge Systems.- 9. Protection of the Dentin-pulp Complex.- 10. Tooth Preparations for Amalgam Restorations.- 11. Amalgam Restorations.- 12. Extensive Amalgam Restorations.- 13. Light-curing units.- 14. Composite restoration on anterior teeth.- 15. Composite restoration on posterior teeth.- 16. Preventive measures and minimally invasive restorative procedures.- 17. Aesthetic veneers – what are they and how to handle them?.- 18. Dentin hypersensitivity and cracked teeth.