Thursday, January 26, 2012

 Okay. So my tooth had this HUGE metal filling in it. 
Well, now most of what was left of the tooth broke off.
What now?!

Well there are a couple of options.
One of the best options to to do an implant.
There are a number of reasons for this but that
would take more time then we have right now.
First step is to extract the broken tooth. 
In this case we placed a bone graft and waited a few weeks 
but that doesn't always have to be the case.


After the healing time we place a titanium implant.
Looks scary? 
It's not.
It's basically just an artificial tooth.
If we can replace hearts and hips then why not a tooth?

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In about 6 weeks we will put a beautiful white (no metal)
crown on this implant and the patient should have no more troubles.




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