Single-visit natural tooth pontic fixed partial denture with fiber reinforcement ribbon.

L O!i$ of an anterior tooth ;5 a cawnophk "''''HI fOf ~ pat;e,\!. The miSiing anl~tilIlg lttrh has been 3 concern of patients throughout th~ ages. The (,rst rcpotlN I'f~helil (or Io.)OIh leplacc"'~'" was app.oximmely during the IlCnod "f 2500 BCE ,0 Ego,,, •• ' The Egyp""" r~u,-.J Ih~ ( Ihe Mlu",,1 1«,11 be(oj'e Ik roo'" no we.e placed. In 18;6, Divcndle, ",he progenj.oj' "f nlod.rn bridll"work," ~"bed a nlelhod of adapllnG a coring '0 the e!>lj of" roo. 3nd ~lloch,"l: an anific~1 \lx-Ih h} iI .' On~ or rhe n>osl inlportant a,l"anc ... in fiXN pr06,hodonn .. was Taggert's devdupment "f the 10111 wax ,,,,,hmq"" of c~"ng 8"[.1 to 1':107 . By 1910, ,his melh",[ "r castini: .ev,,[,,"on;'ed anterior lOu,h fep[ocemem, nlaklnG it poss,ble ,0 prqxHc a Ihrre-q.lJrtcr ,'encer !}l[d CtllWll1l$ a rel3me, (or mOlh ,eplrn:cnlenl a",l lo m,mmi:e .he show of I."'W whc,! !he ( .. cd IXlnial demure was (aixlCaled} By lhe I!Ho., porcelain vcn~ers were being MURch",! ' 0 II"ld erowns. k' Gm,,~et Jc..:ribe..llhe firins of pored.1n <:"«>, rernmers of inodiopia.lnu", in 1940.1 Cllffcndy. the II$C of p<,,,,,,iain.fllsed·.o.met-dl fiuJ pmlL11 den. 'u"" is 1> 'owine PftlCo:tlu", fur tfpL"lCing a tn!· gle mlSoj'l\g .oo.h. In I he 1970$ aoo 1980s, Ihe c"nCC!,1 III ~n ,,,,oJ..,lch b<lndt.~1 OXN """,,I