Long-term survival of complete crowns, fixed dental prostheses, and cantilever fixed dental prostheses with posts and cores on root canal-treated teeth.

Abstract

There was no statistically significant difference in the long-term survival of complete crowns on vital abutments versus post-and-core complete crowns or in the survival of 3-unit FDPs on vital abutments versus those with at least 1 RCT abutment. For FDPs with more than 3 units and C-FDPs, the use of a post-and-core abutment led to significantly more failures.