Modern composite systems offer a variety of customisation options that can be compared with fabrication of indirect restorations in the dental laboratory and can therefore be readily combined with these. The advantages of direct composite restorations are numerous: minimal invasiveness, immediate aesthetic and functional improvement of the clinical situation, direct clinical control of shade effects, modifiability taking patients' wishes into account and avoidance of temporaries. The options for using IPS Empress® Direct composites in anterior aesthetics are described below using the example of several cases.