Archive for May, 2010

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Hair Extension on teeth!

Recently a patient came to me with worn down teeth and asked if anything could be done to improve his smile.

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I was able to start building up some of his front teeth, allowing his teeth to be better protected but also it improved the smile.

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Worn down teeth make your smile look older and one way of actually creating a more youthful smile is to lengthen teeth to their original length.

Hence the pts comment that this was similar to getting hair extensions on his teeth!  

Just remember like hair extensions there has to be something there to fix the extension too so don’t delay act now before its too late!

 Deep Somal

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Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
 
 
How techniques are evolving
Up until 15 yrs ago dental implants were available but not a routine treatment option. Over the recent years however they are becoming a more popular option for replacing missing teeth.
Last week I placed an immediate implant to replace an upper central incisor (Front tooth). The tooth needed extracting as a result of failing root canal treatment.
After careful planning our decision was to carefully extract the tooth and place the implant on the same day. By doing this we hope to maintain the gum levels as they are to provide us with a natural aesthetic final result.
Careful extraction of the tooth using an atraumatic technique allows for bone preservation, allowing an implant to be fixed directly into the extraction site. If we waited for bone healing (6-8 weeks) in this case, the risk would have been shrinkage of the gum resulting in a considerably longer implant tooth compared to the neighbouring natural tooth. By using this relatively new and advanced technique the gum shrinkage can be kept to a minimum.
Akash Ghai
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

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