Re: Are Implants my only Option?

From: Steven Bornfeld (dentaltwinnonsense_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 03/04/05 

Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 15:47:26 -0500

Steven Fawks wrote:
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> New patient exam 15 years ago where a guy had a mesio-lingual bony
> defect on his upper right central. He had been treated surgically by a
> periodontist 3 times without improvement (deep class II bite and
> clenching might have been a factor <G>).
>
> One extraction and a bridge between the lateral and the other central,
> and all is well to this day.
>
> Fawks

        See--and the textbooks don't like using laterals as terminal abutments.
        Good to know not all laterals read the textbooks!

Steve

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>> Saw a patient yesterday morning. She had lost her upper left
>> central incisor. A periodontist had placed an implant 3 times in the
>> site, and the fixture failed to integrate 3 times. He was trying to
>> convince her to try again.
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>> Steve
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