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Originally Posted by Roadcrew
... The left eye tooth was slowly wiggling it's way out. Finally had it pulled. Dr want to do another implant and since the first one was great I thought why not. Needed a bone graft first. The process took 6 months. Then had the implant installed. New implant healed nicely. About 2½ years later started to fail. Dr made valiant effort to save it to no avail...appearance but really at 73 who cares.
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The canine is a difficult tooth to replace with an implant. When you move your jaw laterally, it absorbs all of the forces of occlusion. A implant is fixated to the bone and those lateral forces can cause stress on the bone leading to failure. If the occlusion isn't balanced these single tooth implants can be very tricky to restore. Also, the buccal plate is egg shell thin in that area which can result in a fenestration of the bone. Sometimes the patient has to be put into group function to help spread the forces evenly on that side of the mouth.
Dentistry isn't as simple as people tend to believe unfortunately.