{"id":2131,"date":"2017-03-18T12:24:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T17:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caringdentists.com\/blog\/?p=2131"},"modified":"2017-03-21T19:26:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T00:26:10","slug":"implant-case-of-the-day-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/implant-case-of-the-day-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Implant case of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"

This patient came in to my office having broke off his upper right front tooth leaving only the root. This was a challenging\u00a0 case because his other upper front teeth had old crowns on them with receded gums. This space was also larger than the width of the other incisors. I would have liked to replace all his old crowns at the same time so I could make everything perfect and even, but he just wanted me to restore only this broken off tooth.\u00a0 It turned out pretty nice. Since he has a low lip line, he only shows half of the upper teeth anyway when he smiles. My implant tooth actually looks better than his other teeth. This is how I did it:<\/p>\n

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fractured off central incisor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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x-ray image of root<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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root extracted and implant placed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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custom abutment screwed into implant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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implant crown cemented<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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happy patient<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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implant and custom abutment<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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torque wrench, crown, screw, custom abutment<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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computer design scans<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This patient came in to my office having broke off his upper right front tooth leaving only the root. This was a challenging\u00a0 case because his other upper front teeth had old crowns on them with receded gums. This space was also larger than the width of the other incisors. I would have liked to … Continue reading Implant case of the day<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[11,30,21,9,10,101,12,71,15,17,16],"class_list":["post-2131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dental-implants","tag-arlington","tag-dental","tag-dental-implant","tag-dental-implants","tag-dentist","tag-dentistry","tag-dr-gentry","tag-dr-philip-gentry","tag-northern-virginia","tag-philip-gentry","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2145,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions\/2145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}