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2. Tooth transplant - Wikipedia

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   Management of congenitally absent teeth in one arch with crowding present in the other arch. Premature loss of permanent dentition from caries, trauma, iatrogenic damage or developmental abnormalities. The tooth of choice to replace a tooth missing in the anterior maxillary region is the maxillary second premolars.

3. Full arch restoration - Wikipedia

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   Permanent prosthetics in full arch restoration are the final, long-term dental appliances used to replace missing teeth and restore function and aesthetics in patients with extensive tooth loss. These prosthetics are custom-designed and fabricated to fit precisely onto dental implants that have integrated with the jawbone.

4. All-on-4 - Wikipedia

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   Technique depicted in 3D video This image shows how Nobel Biocare's All-on-4 solution works. The term All-on-4, also known as All-on-Four [1] and All-in-Four, [2] refers to 'all' teeth being supported 'on four' dental implants, a prosthodontics procedure [3] [4] for total rehabilitation of the edentulous (toothless) patient, or for patients with badly broken down teeth, decayed teeth, or ...

5. Dental implant - Wikipedia

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   There is archeological evidence that humans have attempted to replace missing teeth with root form implants for thousands of years. Remains from ancient China (dating 4000 years ago) have carved bamboo pegs, tapped into the bone, to replace lost teeth, and 2000-year-old remains from ancient Egypt have similarly shaped pegs made of precious metals.

6. Dental restoration - Wikipedia

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   There are numerous types of precision attachments (also known as combined restorations) to aid removable prosthetic attachment to teeth, including magnets, clips, hooks, and implants which may themselves be seen as a form of dental restoration. The CEREC method is a chairside CAD/CAM restorative procedure. An optical impression of the prepared ...

7. Tooth replantation - Wikipedia

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   In 1685, Charles Allen wrote of tooth transplantation in the first English dental textbook, The Operator for the Teeth, and encouraged the replantation of teeth from animals as he considered it to be “inhumane” to source them from people. In 1890, Scheff J. Die highlighted the role of the periodontal ligament in long term prognosis of ...