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I'm not sure if she's responsible for the tooth popping off, but she's caused a few jaws to drop.Pamela Anderson?
I'm not sure if she's responsible for the tooth popping off, but she's caused a few jaws to drop.Pamela Anderson?
Ran into a rash of this before, cases werent being processed properly. Leaving wax on teeth, not creating proper bond between acrylic and plastic tooth. Give the other teeth a good hard push make sure they have proper bond..
But most likely patient dropped and it broke off, in my opinion. Its a small fee, id bill them.
Look at tooth, if it came out clean put it back in 10 minutes of work tops. If it didn't come out clean and have to replace the tooth charge.
It is normally a function or design error if it is reoccurring. Sometimes you need to sacrifice function for aesthetics. Remember this is a piece of plastic.If you repair the tooth that came out, do you ever have it come back to you to repair? I just had it and want to troubleshoot it and determine if this is technician error. I understand it could come out due to processing errors for the first time but why would it fail after repair?
IF-- big if... Everything is flying in formation (all the incisors touch evenly in a lateral or protrusive excursions) the force will be evenly distributed on all 12 teeth...and the teeth will all stay in for years....BUT... if a single tooth is carrying all the forces-- it WILL eventually come out. 100% agree aesthetics take a front seat to function. Sometimes a single denture tooth will take one for the team by no inferior fabrication of the lab.So what about if the tooth comes out, you repair it for free and then it pops out 2 weeks after the repair? Again I'm not a technician but this is the kind of stuff that drives me nuts. Regardless of why it popped off the first time, shouldn't have it's been repaired, not come out again?
Possibly you meant aesthetics always takes a backseat to function?100% agree aesthetics take a front seat to function. Sometimes a single denture tooth will take one for the team by no inferior fabrication of the lab.
NOPE. I meant what I said.... If a patient likes the way they look-- they will learn how to use the dentures... FACT. That being said-- excursive movements MUST be smooth, uniform (spreading the load across 3 incisors as much as possible) and not compromised by posterior interferences. No snaggletooths.Possibly you meant aesthetics always takes a backseat to function?
It is normally a function or design error if it is reoccurring. Sometimes you need to sacrifice function for aesthetics. Remember this is a piece of plastic.