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v Periodontal Care and Maintenance
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 | This patient exhibits beginning bite collapse. The lower molar is tilting forward while the bicuspid in front of the space is tilting rearward. The upper molar over the space is drifting lower also. |
| This is another patient before treatments began. He exhibits severe tooth tilting and collapse on both sides. |  |
| Orthodontic treatment was able to upright his molars. This is important to place the biting force along the long axis of the tooth rather than driving the tooth down as in the above x-ray. |  |
| After orthodontics, the left side was restored using a single implant while the right received a fixed bridge. This patient started out as a dental cripple in danger of reaching a point of no return (for his natural teeth) and ended up rehabilitated with a stable and useful bite. |  |