Fourth-year Penn Dental Medicine student William Kessler (D’20) has been recognized for excellence in clinical esthetic dentistry, taking first place in the clinical case report competition at the recent Society for Color and Appearance in Dentistry (SCAD) 11th Annual Conference, in Newport Beach, California. He won for a study titled “Approach for Predictably Matching a Veneer and Crown in Maxillary Central Incisors: A Digital Technique,” which he conducted with faculty in the School’s department of preventive and restorative sciences.

“Matching the shades of adjacent veneers and crowns on discolored abutment teeth is a major esthetic challenge. William presented a novel approach using different ceramics with updated CAD/CAM and adhesive bonding technologies to address this clinical dilemma in an exemplary patient case,” said Markus Blatz, professor and chair of Penn Dental Medicine’s department of preventive and restorative sciences, who was Mr. Kessler’s senior advisor.

Mr. Kessler’s direct supervisor on the project was Julian Conejo, chairside CAD/CAM director, with CAD/CAM lab director Michael Bergler and Leslie Stone-Hirsch, clinical associate professor of restorative dentistry, also supporting the study as co-authors.