This patient wanted to replace two missing upper left teeth and also improve the overall appearance of her smile.
I placed one implant in her upper left jaw and replaced the two missing teeth with a small bridge cemented on the one implant. I also placed porcelain veneers on four upper teeth to close the space in between the front two teeth and to improve the smile.
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This patient requested implants to replace two missing upper left teeth.
Note that some of these pictures were taken using a dental mirror and some were not, so in some pictures the right and left sides of the mouth may be reversed (mirror image).
I placed two dental implants in the upper left. A protective metal cap was placed on each implant.
These implants were left in place for 12 weeks. In order to improve the patient’s chewing ability during this time I cemented a temporary bridge in place.
The temporary bridge improves appearance, and chewing ability
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This case is one that required a combination of a single implant and a porcelain/metal bridge to replace several upper left teeth.
The upper left tooth (second one in) was badly decayed and had to be removed.
The tooth beside this one, to the right on the picture was rotated and our patient wished it looked nicer.
The final picture shows the decayed tooth replaced by a dental implant and porcelain/metal crown which I placed in approximately June 2008. Some of the upper left teeth were replaced with a porcelain/metal bridge.
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