The
purpose of this review was to assess the literature regarding four
types of fixed dental prostheses (FDPs)/resin-bonded FDPs (RBFDPs) to
provide clinicians with a comparative overview of two myths: “RBFDPs are
easy to debond in patients’ mouths” and “cantilever RBFDPs still have
some clinical problems, especially in terms of overloading the abutment
teeth and being easy to debond”. A total of 782 papers were identified,
753 of which were judged unsuitable and thus excluded, leaving a total
of 29 articles for inclusion in this review. The results indicated that
1) Two-retainer RBFDPs achieve clinical results comparable to
full-coverage three-unit FDPs; 2) Cantilever RBFDPs show excellent
long-term clinical outcomes (especially in incisor
teeth) compared with other FDPs; 3) RBFDPs typically show less
catastrophic failure than conventional FDPs, rebonding should be
considered when debonding occurs; and 4) Cantilever RBFDPs can be
recommended as defect replacement prostheses for maxillary lateral incisors and mandibular incisor teeth.
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