20+ year old crowns. In addition to be unsightly there has been movement of teeth in the upper right and lower left quadrants because there are no opposing teeth in the opposite arch. This tooth loss pattern is difficult to treat. When teeth migrate from their original position, especially when they move out of the bone (super-eruption) it is nearly impossible to push them back into place. In extreme cases those teeth need to be extracted. In this case, because he had been wearing a removable partial denture the teeth had only moved a few millimeters. By opening the patients bite (increasing vertical dimension) we were able to save the teeth and put new crowns on them. In areas where teeth were missing, dental implants were used to give him "fixed" teeth in all areas.
