The
patient shown in this section has become a good friend of mine and I'm
delighted to show the work that has been done for him. When we started
a few years ago, Robert was 75 years old and had been looking all around
Boca Raton to find someone to replace his missing teeth.
The Panorex shows the situation about a year or so before I saw him. The
Lower left second bicuspid was lost by the time I first examined Robert,
and the first bicuspid appeared to be cracked and non-salvageable. the
bridge on the upper left was hanging down into the lower edentulous space
and he was missing his molars on the upper right. The Periapical radiograph
shows a slight dehiscence in the second bicuspid region which turned out
to be a very large defect. I elected to bypass placing an implant in that
defect and placed one implant in the first bicuspid site (immediately
placement) and two implants in the area of the first molar.