Crown to partial with a twist
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.
Daniel,
Thanks for sharing. Great idea! Love these posts. I think it's great when we think outside of the box as was stated!
Carrie
Super Cool. I have lots of those kind of patients. Our closest lab is 2 1/2 hours away. And it takes 3-4 days for a case. Can't wait to try it. thanks for the post
On 2/2/2016 at 7:29 am, Chad Johnson said...Nice! I wouldn't have thought of that. Way to be (wait for it) Cera-Smart.
Chad, you were just waiting to use that one!
Thanks for all the comments.
Hey Daniel
Great idea for an issue that I am sure all of us see often. Now we have another option to deal with it - Thanks for the post.
