Mr. Z came to the clinic 2 weeks ago after he loss his lower front tooth. I asked him how did it happen and he said, the tooth was really shaky and while brushing his teeth that morning the tooth fell out by itself. He…
Does the above picture remind you of Nanny McPhee ? It is isn’t it? At least to me. Madam Lia was tired of people making fun of her. She wanted to have a more decent smile, she said. Hence why she came to us. I…
Three months ago…she has two missing lower front teeth and the plan was to replace it with a fiber reinforced composite bridge (FRC bridge). Appointment was made but unfortunately something came up and she failed to attend the appointment.
Two more failed appointments followed before finally she was able to make it.
She was excited to get both her missing teeth replaced and she got them replaced after spending around 2 hours on my dental chair.
This is how her lower teeth look like with the two missing teeth before FRC bridge procedure.
This lower photo shows what it look like during the procedure. The two missing teeth was replaced by using fiber glass strand core than was bonded across the two adjacent teeth next to missing teeth area and composite resin were added layer by layer and sculpted to form the shape of correspond teeth.
And this is how her FRC bridge looks like after final polishing.
Yes, finally after 3 months from initial plan, her missing teeth was replaced and she happily left my clinic.
Dr Nik (nik@drfauziah.com)
It’s another FRC bridge day. This time, my patient had a missing upper left center tooth. Of course few treatment options were given to her and she chose to do FRC bridge. I started of with cleaning of teeth involved and isolating the area with…
Ms A, a young teenager came to our clinic accompanied by her mother. She broke one of her front tooth due to a fall when she was about 6 years old. Subsequently, a large tooth coloured filling was placed to fix the fractured portion of…