Abstract
It is the aim of this paper to present data on the survival of direct and indirect restorations in anterior teeth. Two sources of information are used: previously-published analysis of data from 1990 to 2006 from a 13 million restoration dataset from England and Wales; and evidence from published literature from 2011 to the time of writing (March 2022). The findings suggest that: (1) directly-placed resin composite materials may provide satisfactory survival of restorations in anterior teeth; (2) crowns provide better survival to re-intervention: however, crowning an incisor or canine tooth, as opposed to placement of a direct restoration, will lead to an earlier time to extraction of the restored tooth; (3) veneers perform more favourably than other restorations in terms of time to extraction of the restored tooth, but may have a less favourable time to re-intervention than crowns; (4) lithium disilicate crowns may be considered to perform satisfactorily with regard to time to re-intervention when placed in anterior teeth, but less satisfactorily in posterior teeth; and (5) operator factors influence survival of restorations.