Dan Butterman This patient presented as an emergency with pain and mobility of #5. The X-ray showed almost no bone around this tooth, but #6 was still fairly stable. We are slowly converting him to a complete denture as nature takes its course. He refused to allow me to send the partial to the lab to add a tooth @ position #5 since he has no front teeth without it. CEREC to the rescue!
I did a biocopy of his existing tooth, extracted #5, then re-scanned the surgical site and milled the crown (denture tooth) out of Cerasmart.
The "denture tooth" was bonded into place with acrylic and he was good to go in about 45 minutes.... Until the next one.
