All posts by Dr. Philip Gentry, DDS

Dr Philip Gentry

About Dr. Philip Gentry, DDS

Dr. Philip Gentry graduated Summa Cum Laude from Georgetown University School of Dentistry, and is a Fellow of The Academy of General Dentistry. He is Clinical Asst Professor, teaching the next generation of dentists at the University of Maryland Dental School. As a premier, experienced, well respected dentist in Arlington, VA, his practice focuses on state-of-the-art dental implant restorations, precision zirconia and porcelain crowns, and comprehensive reconstructive procedures. Repeatedly voted one of the Area’s Top Dentists by Washingtonian Magazine, Northern Virginia Magazine, Arlington Magazine, and Virginia Living Magazine. Dr Gentry is a Washingtonian Magazine Hall of Fame Top Dentist.

Crown case of the day

For this patient today, I removed 2 porcelain fused to metal crowns that she recently had done in El Salvador, cleaned up the decay underneath,  polished her other teeth, and  placed 2 beautiful new zirconia crowns. She was so happy and has a beautiful smile for Christmas :-)))

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happy patient
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zirconia crowns

Crown, and post and core case of the day

This patient today  broke off his upper lateral incisor. We discussed the different restorative options. I told him I would try to save the root and build a tooth back up for him and place a crown. The tooth had a root canal many years ago. I drilled out the canal and cemented a titanium post inside the canal and build the tooth up. I prepared the tooth and made and cemented a zirconium crown over the build-up.

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canal cleaned
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Bridge case of the day

This patient had a non-restorable decayed upper first molar tooth. I recommended a bridge since his adjacent teeth already had crowns on them. We extracted the infected molar and placed a temporary bridge. Following healing I prepared the adjacent teeth and fabricated and cemented a fixed 3 unit zirconia porcelain bridge. Here’s the before and after pictures.

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X-ray of infected tooth
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photo of decayed tooth
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zirconia bridge
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view of inside
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happy patient :-)))

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Implant/crown case of the day

This 32 year old female patient was missing her upper left lateral incisor and the right lateral incisor was fractured. Today I restored the missing lateral incisor with a BioHorizons titanium dental implant, custom abutment, porcelain crown and broken incisor with a porcelain crown.

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Implant case of the day

This patient had a fractured upper first bicuspid tooth that needed to be extracted. I restored her tooth with a Zimmer Biomet 3i Encode screw retained dental implant. Here are my clinical photos of the crown delivery today.

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Encode healing abutment
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screw retained implant crown
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filling placed in access opening
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implant crown, gold screw and torque wrench
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final x-ray
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digital design scan