Dental Health Magazine Dental Health Digital Issue | Page 53

Issue #5, March 2017
Note after the placement of the crown, the patient
was very happy in the sense that her “gaps” were
restored and secondly none of her teeth need to
be sacrificed for a bridge.
wanted a “fixed” solution. She wanted
her original “gap” back in between
her two central incisors. Clearly a
conventional fix bridge will not allow
for a gap between the two incisors,
therefore an implant would be the only
solution.
CONCLUSION
The advent of dental implants has
given patients the choice of not having
to sacrifice untouched or perfect teeth
just for the sake of filling a missing tooth.
In addition to that, those who prefer to
An implant was placed and several restore the “gaps” between the teeth
months later a second stage was done in can do so with implants, something
which an abutment was placed as seen which was previously impossible with
in the picture above. Note the big gaps conventional dental bridges.
between the teeth and implant. The case
was then restored with porcelain fused
to metal crown as seen above.
Dr Firdaus Hanapiah
BDS (Otago) MSc (Lon.) FDSRCS (England) FICOI
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