Resorbable Suture Tenting
Patient Details
- Male
- 73 year old
- Pain from a mobile upper right central incisor that had received trauma approximately ten years prior to presentation
- Dr Michael Ainsworth
- UK
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Initial situation. Periapical radiograph showing resorption
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Examination revealed deep pocketing of up to 9mm mesially, grade 2 mobile, adjacent tooth grade 1 mobile and had pocket depth of 5mm distally
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Atraumatic extraction leaving the socket epithelium intact
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Maryland bridge, note close adaption and support of the socket periphery