Creating a correct contact area, both in terms of strength, extension, and location, is perhaps one of the fundamental needs, if not the most important one, in direct restorative dentistry.
Achieving predictable, esthetic, and functional Class II composite restorations remains a common clinical challenge, particularly in cases requiring back-to-back contacts.
A 34-year-old female patient in good general health presented to my practice with interproximal carious lesions affecting teeth #12 on the distal-occlusal (DO) surface and #13 on the mesial-occlusal-distal (MOD) surface.
A 38-year-old female patient in good general health presented to my practice with interproximal carious lesions affecting tooth #2 (MO). From the BW image I could tell it had extended axially into the dentin.