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The combination of intracoronal and extracoronal bleaching represents a conservative treatment to restore esthetics to darkened or stained nonvital teeth. Notwithstanding the eventual risks and difficulties accompanying such technique, nonvital teeth often can be successfully lightened. This article presents a few guidelines for bleaching nonvital teeth as well as a clinical case to illustrate the indications and clinical protocol for the technique.

The adhesive amalgam restoration technique combines the good properties of amalgam with the principles of tooth structure preservation and marginal seal inherent to adhesive materials. In spite of lack of longitudinal data, results of early clinical and laboratory tests are encouraging. If the present research is substantiated by clinical confirmation of their results, bonded amalgam restorations will become routine. The purpose of this article is to present a brief literature review on adhesive amalgam restoration and to introduce guidelines for its use.