Implants

So what do you do when you lose teeth and you dont want to make a conventional fixed bridge because you don't want to grind down perfectly healthy teeth?
Implants...perfect solution.
This patient lost the lower front four teeth and we did not want to have to make a bridge involving the adjacent canine teeth which were healthy..so the implant surgeon placed two implants in the toothless space...and this is what the implant fixtures look like before teeth are built on them...

Onto these implants we now build a metal framework that gets screwed into the implants and eventually we will bake porcelain onto the metal to make this patient beautiful..
here are two photos of the framework and you can clearly see the screw holes which will be used to secure the implant into place.