Loss of a single tooth may cause functional and esthetic deficits. There are two treatment options that exist for replacing missing incisors. They include a tooth-supported restoration, or a single-tooth implant. Dental implants are a good treatment option for replacing missing teeth in adolescents, provided that the subject’s dental and skeletal development is complete. In some patients the sp...

The aim of this study was to survey the association of congenitally missing anterior tooth and variations in craniofacial morphology in South Indian female patients. A total of 15 female patients with congenitally missing tooth in the maxillary anterior region were selected. 16 linear and 6 angular measurements were done on the lateral cephalograms of each subject with Legan and Burstone analys...

Tooth loss or absence is a common condition that can be caused by various pathological circumstances. The replacement of the missing tooth is important for medical and aesthetic reasons. Recently, scientists focus on tooth tissue engineering, as a potential treatment, beyond the existing prosthetic methods. Tooth engineering is a promising new therapeutic approach that seeks to replace the miss...

OBJECTIVE To verify the incidence of tooth loss in extended age group of adults in 4 years. MATERIALS AND METHODS The prospective cohort study assessed adults (20-64 years old) between 2011 and 2015, from Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil. The dependent variable was cumulative incidence of tooth loss, assessed by difference between missing teeth (M) of decayed, missing, and filled tooth index (DM...

Autogenous tooth transplantation, or autotransplantation, is a promising procedure for recovering the occlusal function of lost teeth. Once thought to be experimental, autotransplantation has achieved high success rates and is an excellent option for tooth replacement. Autotransplantation is now a common procedure in dentistry for replacing a missing tooth especially in children and adolescents...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the mean number of missing teeth, lack of functional dentition and total tooth loss (edentulism) among adolescents, adults and the elderly in Brazil, comparing the results with those of 2003. METHODS Data from 5,445 adolescents aged 15-19, 9,779 adults aged 35-44 and 7,619 elderly individuals aged 65-74, participants in the Brazilian Oral Health Survey (SBBrasil) 2010, w...

A 16-year-old female presented with the chief concern of esthetic deficiency caused by a missing tooth (Fig. 1A). She had lost her maxillary right central incisor in a cycling accident nine years previously. The tooth, which had been avulsed during the accident, was reimplanted and subjected to endodontic therapy several days later, but was lost again in a second traumatic avulsion after a few ...

AIM To present the 14 year follow-up of a case in which an avulsed permanent maxillary central incisor was replaced by autotransplantation of a mandibular premolar. SUMMARY A mandibular premolar (Moorrees' stage 3) was transplanted into the space left by an avulsed permanent maxillary central incisor after a delay of 3 months. Recall examination 14 years after transplantation revealed a norma...