SMILES
SPOTLIGHT
in the
LEADERS IN NORTH TEXAS DENTISTRY
CREATING UNFORGETTABLE SMILES
Implant Dentistry
Meeting Esthetic Challenges
with Creative Solutions
Esthetic Challenges
Implant Dentistry can be a rewarding and esthetically beautiful
treatment for many practitioners and their patients. Implant
dentistry can be successful with a wide variety of clinicians
providing surgical and restorative procedures in their dental
offices. Teams of specialists often bring together skills and experiences treating complex problems that can meet the needs
of more challenging hard and soft tissue conditions. And many
times the existing conditions presented to the restorative doctor require unique solutions with regards to meeting the functional and esthetic desires of the patient.
Case Presentation
A mid-forties female was involved in a motor vehicle accident
that left significant hard and soft tissue lose in the maxillary
right anterior quadrant. After emergency triage followed by
bone grafting procedures, two implants were placed in teeth
sites #6 & #7. Her desire for an esthetic smile was paramount
to all other treatments. She was referred to the office at this
point for consultation and evaluation for any esthetic option
that could be created after being treated by Drs. Gil Triplett
and Jerry English.
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Treatment Decisions
Implants placed properly and that had already integrated provided a starting point. Without adequate hard and soft tissue
support, significant laboratory and restorative collaboration
was undertaken to recreate for her a “Best Possible Compromise”. Her provisional restorative phase was accomplished to
determine the proper height of the crowns as well as to evaluate the amount of esthetic soft tissue creation that would be
required prosthetically. Crowns were planned on natural
teeth #5, #8, #9, #10 and #11 and implant supported custom
abutments and crowns were planned for teeth #6 and #7.