Natural tooth as an interim prosthesis

Abstract

A traumatic injury to primary maxillary anterior tooth is one of the common causes for problems with the succedaneous tooth leading to it noneruption. A missing anterior tooth can be psychologically and socially damaging to the patient. Despite a wide range of treatment options available, sometimes, it is inevitable to save the natural tooth. This paper describes the immediate replacement of a right central incisor using a fiber-composite resin splint with the natural tooth crown as a pontic following surgical extraction of the dilacerated impacted permanent maxillary central incisor. The abutment teeth can be conserved with minimal or no preparation, thus keeping the technique reversible and can be completed at chair side thereby avoiding laboratory costs. It can be used as an interim measure until a definitive prosthesis can be fabricated as the growth is still incomplete.

Reinsertion of a fractured clinical crown as a biological restoration after dental trauma

“…However, when the fragment has been recovered, the first treatment option would be to adhere it provisionally or even permanently. [ 8 9 10 ] When the fractured fragment covers two-thirds of the tooth, the treatment is usually minimally invasive because it only involves adhesion. On the other hand, in this case, the fractured fragment covered the entire clinical crown, which resulted in a treatment that was actually more invasive.…”