Patent ID: 6884073

Claim:
A temporary for protecting a tooth stub comprised of a provisional and a resin filler, said provisional having at least a partial bite layer, a pair of opposing neighbour walls, which are at least partial walls, at least a partial lingual wall and at least a partial buccal wall, said lingual and buccal walls in opposition, said bite layer integral with the neighbour, lingual and buccal walls to define a cavity to accept the tooth stub and resin filler, the resin filler containing a selected coloring agent and being initially plastic and filling a void between the provisional and the tooth stub, the walls of the provisional being light-transmissible and at least an inner surface of the provisional and the resin filler being comprised of bis-GMA or chemicals selected from the group consisting of methacrylates, dimethacrylates and diacrylates, the composition of at least an inner surface of the provisional and the resin filler being selected for compatibility and cooperative curability, and the resin filler being initially unpolymerized and the provisional having an initially incompletely polymerized layer integral with the inner surface of the provisional, such that after polymerization of the resin filler, completion of the polymerization of the initially incompletely polymerized layer, and a suitable curing step, the provisional becomes substantially bound to and integral with the resin filler.