A conservative, aesthetic, restorative treatment of a worn dentition.

Advances in adhesive technology and in materials science have combined to provide the dentist with techniques which increased the ability to achieve the ultimate restorative objective: The restoration of diseased or missing tooth structure, including its appearance, without the additional removal of healthy tooth structure. The learning objective of this article is to illustrate, using a case report, how far restorative dentistry, redefined as aesthetic, adhesive, restorative dentistry, has taken us in this endeavor.