Case Report
Year: 2020 | Month: January-March | Volume: 5 | Issue: 1 | Pages: 238-241
Redesigning Smile Using an Immediate Ovate Pontic
Amina Khan1, Vishwas Bhatia2, Punit Raj Singh Khurana3, Kartika Nitin Kumar4
1Post Graduate Student, ITS Dental College and Hospital, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.
2Professor, ITS Dental College and Hospital, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.
3Professor and HOD, ITS Dental College and Hospital, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.
4Senior lecturer, ITS Dental College and Hospital, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Corresponding Author: Amina Khan
ABSTRACT
Clinical success of fixed prosthodontics is dependent in part upon the type of pontic design. Advances in the field of restorative materials allow a lost tooth to be replaced by an artificial tooth structure that is virtually indiscernible from the original. However, in fixed partial dentures, the standards for the pontic area and the adjacent soft tissue in the maxillary anterior region have increased in particular. The pontic design in this region is primarily influenced by aesthetic and phonetic considerations, thus a valuable solution to provide a natural, aesthetic and immediate restoration is the use an ovate pontic design.
Keywords: ovate pontic design, redesigning smile, fixed prosthodontics