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This lovely 90-year-old patient has kept most of her teeth her whole life. She flosses twice daily and uses fluoride every night! One day at a luncheon with friends, she accidentally bit a salad fork, and felt two of her lower front teeth become rather loose and painful to the touch.<\/p>\n

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Lower teeth prepared for conservative bonded splint.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bonded splint in place.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After determining that the teeth could be saved, we planned to splint the looser teeth together to the stronger remaining lower front teeth. The splint needed to be plaque-resistant and easily cleaned, in order to be successful long-term, so we planned for a gold lingual (tongue-side) bar retainer.<\/p>\n

With no anesthetic needed, we very conservatively prepared a small shelf across the inside of the lower front teeth, and later cemented a gold-alloy retainer that custom fit the nooks and crannies across that row of teeth.\u00a0 The case is now 7 years in service, and the patient is still biting comfortably on her damaged teeth!<\/p>\n

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