{"id":2360,"date":"2017-09-04T10:16:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T15:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caringdentists.com\/blog\/?p=2360"},"modified":"2017-09-04T10:16:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T15:16:33","slug":"broken-dental-implant-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/broken-dental-implant-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken dental implant case"},"content":{"rendered":"

This patient presented with a broken lower implant. I originally restored this implant crown a few years ago, and I was quite surprised and curious as to why it broke. This is very rare, and I used all the best, highest quality, Swiss made, Straumann Implant parts. The implant porcelain crown and titanium abutment broke apart leaving the screw still in the implant. She clenches and grinds her teeth, but still, this should not have occurred. I redid the implant crown and did not charge the patient. These are the clinical pictures:<\/p>\n

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broken implant parts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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view in mouth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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x-ray of broken implant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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ready to make a new crown<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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impression post in place<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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confirming post seating<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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restorative implant parts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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implant crown in place\/screw channel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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case completed, screw channel filled, beautiful :-)))<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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confirming proper alignment prior to final screw torquing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This patient presented with a broken lower implant. I originally restored this implant crown a few years ago, and I was quite surprised and curious as to why it broke. This is very rare, and I used all the best, highest quality, Swiss made, Straumann Implant parts. The implant porcelain crown and titanium abutment broke … Continue reading Broken dental implant case<\/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":[30,21,9,10,101,12,71,17],"class_list":["post-2360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dental-implants","tag-dental","tag-dental-implant","tag-dental-implants","tag-dentist","tag-dentistry","tag-dr-gentry","tag-dr-philip-gentry","tag-philip-gentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360","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=2360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2372,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360\/revisions\/2372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}