European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine

Introduction
This study is required as the aesthetic concerns of the population have increased exponentially in recent decades especially in the anterior aesthetic zone. This research will aid dentists in taking these scores into account before performing restorations. Limited number of substantial research studies exist on the use of white aesthetic scores for the assessment of aesthetics in direct and indirect veneering.
Aim
The aim of this study was to compare the white aesthetic scores between direct and indirect veneering.
Materials and Methods
This was a comparative, descriptive study, where all the data of the patients who reported to the dental clinics in saveetha dental college, SIMATS, Chennai, India, was obtained from the dental information archiving software (DIAS). Patient records were collected between March 2020 and March 2021. Data was collected and tabulated. The collected data was further analyzed, recorded in Microsoft Excel software and was subjected to statistical analysis using IBM SPSS statistics analyzer v.23.0.
Results and Discussion
The total sample size of this study was 60 cases. We observed that the mean age, color, surface texture and total white aesthetic scores were higher in indirect veneering whereas mean tooth form, outline and translucency were higher in direct veneering. male predominance was observed with 78.33% of the study population being males.
Conclusion
Within the limitations of the current study, indirect veneering was found to have overall better white aesthetic scores compared to direct veneering.

Background:Due to the increasing esthetic demands in today's world it becomes necessary to study various treatment options which enhance an overall aesthetics of an individual. One of the most important topics in contemporary dentistry is re-establishing a patient lost dental esthetic appearance. In cases where aesthetics plays an important role such as restoring the anterior teeth, clinicians mostly prefer a conservative yet aesthetic approach instead of restoring the teeth with full coverage crowns. In such situations direct and indirect veneers play an important role. So therefore, it becomes necessary to study direct and indirect veneers.Aim: To evaluate the prevalence of direct and indirect veneers used in smile correction.Materials and Methods:It is designed as a retrospective study. A total of 111 patient records where veneering with direct and indirect technique was planned were acquired. It was done by analysing records of 86000 patient data who were treated from March 2019- March 2020. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse the frequency and percentages of direct and indirect veneers . Chi square test was used to evaluate the association between age and gender with the type of veneering technique. SPSS version 20 software was used to perform statistics.Results: Out of the total cases evaluated, 78. 4 % of the cases were planned for indirect veneering and 21.6% of the cases were planned for direct veneering. There was a significant association between age of the patient and the type veneering technique planned p value 0.001 and no significant association between the type of veneering and gender of the patient p value 0.790Conclusion:Within the limitations of the study, Indirect veneering technique was found to be more convenient and it was performed much more as compared to that of direct veneering technique. There is a positive association between age of the patient and type of veneering technique planned for them.