How to Restore the Anterior Mandible with Celtra® Press

Dental Team: Dr. Joris Kloster and Markus Stork, MDT, from Wiesloch and Braunschweig, Germany respectively. 

Restorative Challenge: The 33-year-old patient first presented with no systemic conditions, except for an allergy to penicillin. A few years earlier, she had been diagnosed with periodontitis. Subsequently, tooth #24 had become mobile and had to be extracted. Another dentist had placed an adhesive bridge on teeth #23-25. This bridge had loosened several times and had to be re-bonded at regular intervals. 

Tooth #12 had a ceramic implant and some of the teeth in each of the four quadrants had ceramic inlays, partial crowns or composite fillings. Horizontal bone loss due to persistent chronic periodontal disease in the posterior region was evident radiographically. 

Treatment Plan: The patient requested an esthetic, durable and stable restoration...