Provisional restoration is essential for function, esthetics, trikes occlusion, and tissue health.However, when multiple teeth are involved, making a direct splinted provisional restoration could be challenging due to the combined undercuts between the prepared teeth.This article describes a dental technique using polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) tape as a toys spacer to fabricate a splinted provisional restoration for multiple prepared teeth.
The PTFE tape spacer will compensate for discrepancies in the path of insertion between prepared teeth, thus facilitating the removal of the direct splinted provisional restoration intact.