"This attractive 18 year old female patient had lost an upper anterior incisor to an ectopically erupting cuspid. Through orthodontic treatment, her arch was aligned leaving a space in the lateral position. A pontic tooth was placed on her retainer for cosmetic purposes but she requested something more permanent. The adjacent youthful looking teeth would not be duplicated satisfactorily through a conventional three-unit bridge. The esthetics of an implant was rejected based on her high smile line.

The state-of-the-art solution was to provide small box preparations on the teeth adjacent to the space and have Aurum Ceramic construct a Cristobal + pontic with Vectris reinforcement, retained through bonding in the box forms. The end result was outstanding. The patient had no postoperative difficulties and the esthetic result left her ecstatic. The icing on the cake was that this result was achieved with a color map through a laboratory located thousands of miles away!