Modeling of ultrathin occlusal veneers

Pascal Magne1, Kyle Stanley, Luís Henrique Schlichting

  • 1Department of Restorative Sciences, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC, University of Southern California, 3151 S. Hoover St., Los Angeles, CA 90089-7792, USA. magne@usc.edu

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Veneer

Veneer refers to a thin sheet of wood, typically produced to a thickness of about one-eighth of an inch or less. This material is crafted through various methods, the most common being rotary cutting. In this process, a log is mounted into a large lathe and spun against a knife edge, peeling off a continuous strip of wood as the knife penetrates deeper into the rotating log, creating a rotary-cut veneer.
Other veneering techniques include plain-slicing, quarter-slicing, and rift-slicing. These...