Thursday, January 10, 2008

Mobility Factor

So what do we do when you are getting on in years and your teeth are getting loose...
sometimes we have to resort to capping the teeth and then connecting the caps in order to stabilize the teeth...but that is a big project...and very costly$$.
So an alternate method is to do an intracoronal splint...and here is a good example...

There is one solid tooth and a few loose teeth...so let's connect or splint them to stabilize the loose ones...
First I drill a channel and fit a metal rod into that channel...

Then we bond the metal rod into the channel with good old bonding material...
I then do the same thing for the tooth next to it...

I will do the same thing for all the front teeth in this area...but this was enough for today..next time we will carry this stabilization to the other side...

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