Andrew Hall This is a case were we sometimes have to meet the patient at their primary need. He presented to me to" fix his front teeth." There is a lot to deal with here, hygiene issues, assessment of diet as patient is high caries risk. Yes we discussed a lot of options and the need for change in order for anything to be successful long term. Ultimately we decided that we would crown the canines and the goal is to place two implant in the anterior segment and restore #7-10.
Here is initial presentation:
Set the case up to mill the interim bridge with Telio Cad:
My plan was to grind #7-10 down to the gum line, prep #6,11 and get a provisional bridge milling and then come back and extract the teeth. Lesson learned here was that I should have taken the teeth down even more to allow for a better design of the interim bridge.
Next was to design the case - I did utilize biojaw in this case and the harmonic positioning. This may not be the final restorative position, but you can see how it placed the proposals well in front of the extraction sites, given the position of the canines. The case required a Telio Cad block B55. I have attached the rst if anyone wants to play around and design the case.
While that was being milled it was time to extract the teeth, utilization of the Benex allowed for atraumatic extraction
I did opt to place bone graft as well - curious how others would have handled this
After grafting it was time to seat the bridge - I certainly needed to spend more time contouring and need to work on making the embrasures look better. Many lessons learned, hope this helps someone out in the future with this type of case. The patient was happy given the initial presentation and it's at least a start point for this case that is certainly a work in progress.....
Thoughts and ideas welcomed.....
