Restoring a Crowned Tooth That Broke, Leaving Only the Root, with an Implant

Hello!

I’m Yoon Tae-ho from Seoul Bardi Dental Clinic.

Teeth are very hard,

but when they have become weak,

an unexpected accident can happen.

For example, after eating hard food..

or biting the wrong way..

Restoring a Crowned Tooth That Broke, Leaving Only the Root, with an Implant

Today, I’ll tell you about one such case, where a crown had already been placed and the tooth broke.

I don’t think we can save it

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Many patients want to keep and use their teeth if at all possible,

but sometimes even they think, “Ah... this one can’t be saved.”

They come in somewhat resigned.

The patient today also had such a large fracture area

that they asked what implant treatment would be like.

As you can see from the photo, only the root remains.

It is almost embedded in the gums.

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After taking an X-ray to check, the tooth had already undergone root canal treatment,

and perhaps because the decay had been severe,

there is even a post inserted into the tooth.

This was a case of a crowned tooth breaking..

It was not a natural tooth,

and when there has already been prior treatment,

there are only a few possible treatment options.

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Coronal portion

If part of my own tooth had remained,

we could have tried to save it,

but after extraction, an implant would be the alternative.

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Even for a simple implant for one tooth,

we perform a CT scan

to check the condition of the bone inside.

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Before placing the implant,

we completed removal of the case where only the root remained,

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and placed the implant into the extracted tooth site.

Fortunately, there was enough bone,

so instead of burying it under the gums, we connected a small screw and finished the procedure.

In cases like this, if osseointegration goes well,

there is the advantage that the implant completion period becomes shorter.

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About two months later, the bone and implant had fused well,

so we made the prosthesis and completed the treatment.

Today, I showed a case in which an existing crowned tooth broke

and an implant was placed after extraction.

There is no point in being upset about what has already happened.

When a problem occurs, solve it immediately!

I’ll think about how to resolve it.

Thank you.

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