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Mini Dental Implants Can Replace a Broken Upper Tooth with a Fixed Porcelain Crown

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What do you do when an upper tooth that has had a root canal just breaks one day?

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Broken upper premolar tooth.  The root is fractured under the gum tissue.

 

 

 

 

 

 

X ray root canal Extraction

X ray and extraction of the broken tooth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OCO mini dental implant

 

The broken tooth is removed carefully to preserve as much bone as possible.  A OCO Biomedical 3.0mm mini dental implant is placed the same day as the extraction.  With the design of the OCO mini implant it is able to achieve high initial stability.  Enough to place a temporary crown to shape the tissue during healing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oco mini day of placement

 

Clinical photo of the OCO Biomedical implant the day of placement.

 

 

 

 

Tissue healed

Tissue after shaping and healing with a temporary crown.  The temporary crown was removed to check healing…pink healthy gum tissue with no bleeding.  A standard crown impression will be taken and a porcelain crown will be made to fit over the mini dental implant.

 

 

Crown in place

Porcelain crown cemented in place over the OCO Biomedical mini dental implant.  The patient will brush and floss the mini dental implant crown just like any other tooth. 

With a mini dental implant there are lots of solutions that can be offered to patients.

 

 

 

Paresh B Patel DDS

Mini Dental Implants

Dental Implants Charlotte NC

Dental Implants Lenoir Hickory NC

Missing Teeth? Mini Dental Implants Can Help

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Before web It is estimated that over 50% of Americans are missing at least one tooth (not including wisdom teeth or third molars). 

Some of these missing teeth can be in the smile area.  This picture shows a patient of mine that lost two of her teeth due to fractures in the root.  She did not like showing the large gap between her molar and her canine tooth.

 

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For this case I selected a OCO Biomedical two piece 3.25mm dental implant.  The picture to the right shows the OCO ERI 3.25 implant being placed.  The bone was very soft and the two piece implant was allowed to heal without fear that it would get moved around by biting forces. 

 

 

 

 

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OCO Biomedical ERI 3.25mm dental implant in place right below the gum.  The gold color you see is the collar of the implant.  I think it is a nice touch to mask the grey color of the implant.

 

 

 

 

 

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The OCO Biomedical Implants with a solid abutment screwed in place.  The abutment is the part that is placed into the implant and comes up out of the gum for the crown to cement to.  This does add an additional expense but in some cases it is necessary. 

 

 

 

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X-ray of the crowns made to fit over the OCO Biomedical dental implants.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paresh B Patel

Mini Dental Implants

Dental Implants Charlotte NC

Dental Implants Hickory Lenoir Asheville Boone NC