Freitas-Júnior AC, Silva AM. Pre-prosthetic orthodontic treatment using personalized elastic separators for optimization of emergence profile in esthetic crowns: a clinical report.
J Prosthodont 2011;
21:52-5. [PMID:
21883631 DOI:
10.1111/j.1532-849x.2011.00746.x]
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Abstract
Restoring a misaligned tooth with an inadequate contact point is a challenge to the practitioner. In some instances, teeth that could be repositioned and adequately restored are extracted. Thus, the aim of this article was to describe a treatment using orthodontic and prosthetic techniques to restore esthetics and function in a patient with a distally drifted maxillary lateral incisor. The patient's functional and esthetic expectations were successfully met with the outlined treatment.
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