Mike Skramstad I have done very few bridges in the last few year...but sometimes you have to. This patient came to me with a ton of pain on a tooth that he said was extracted 8 years ago. After I took the PA we noticed the problem... an infected root tip that was left. He has been wearing a flipper.
He initially wanted to do an implant, but after flapping and extracting the infected root, we realized that extensive bone grafting was going to be necessary and it just wasn't in his budget.... so we did a bridge today (about 8 weeks after extraction). The bridge was e.max A3.
He was quite happy. This is immediate post op today... An implant would have been nice, but some scenarios a bridge does the job.
