Fragkiadakis Emmanouil

SURGEON DENTIST DDS, MSc
Evans 8, Heraklion Crete

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Metal ceramic or metal porcelain crowns are prosthodontic overall coverage restorations that simulate teeth and are made of metal frame on their inside and aesthetic porcelain material on the outside. The ceramic material 's color simulates the nearby teeth, while they also have great breaking endurance.

In some cases with very damaged tooth that a single dental filling is not going to have very successful results, we can construct a dental inlay or onlay for the restored tooth in corporation with the dental laboratory. Finally, the dental inlay or onlay bonds with the tooth, while its construction material is made of metal, composite resin or porcelain, depending on the tooth's indications and contraindications.

The most conservative aesthetic prosthodontic restoration in dentistry, is porcelain veneers. It has a thickness of just 0,5 mm, made from white porcelain material and only covers the front surface of the tooth (just as we see it). They are usually placed in the front teeth, where we have high aesthetic requirements, so we follow a beautiful smile with minimal tooth cutting. Their construction technique is very sensitive, yet the selection of the teeth, to place those veneers, is subject to certain conditions.

All-ceramic crown is an aesthetic prosthodontic restoration that simulates a tooth and is made from (white) ceramic material throughout. It does not contain metal at all, and provides an esthetic result of high quality and naturalness. It is usually built to be placed in the front teeth, where we have high esthetic standards to succeed an impressive smile.

A dental bridge is an immovable replacement of one or more missing teeth. It is supported in remaining natural teeth, when both natural and artificial teeth are in a single common frame. Its frame is made from metal or zirconium. First of all, the cosmetic material simulating the color of the tooth is acrylic or ceramic / porcelain, while secondly it is zirconium. In contrast to mobile dentures, which can be removed and repositioned from the patient himself in the mouth, the dental bridges are permanently attached to the natural teeth.

The bone tissue graft is a bone that has been modified in laboratory or manufactured, usually by the shape of a small test form. Its source is often human, pork , beef, horsetail, or artificial in whole. It is placed with special surgical techniques to replace the lost bone in the receiver area, resulting in significant biological advantages in both natural and artificial teeth but also in better aesthetics. The grafts are assimilated by the body over a period of 3-6 months.

Sinus lifting is the surgical procedure in which we lift the sinus membrane inserting a graft of bone tissue between the upper jaw bone and the sinus membrane. Like this we increase bone height to place 1 or more implants in the upper jaw back area. This procedure can occur either on or before the same day the implants are placed in the area.

It is the microsurgery in which the upper or lower lip fraenum or the tongue fraenum is cut and removed. Fraenum is called a soft tissue component which begins from the inside of the lips or tongue and ends up in the gums. In certain situations, fraenums may trigger the gums to decline, or a wide gap between the upper jaw 's two front teeth. Fraenums are also removed in young children, except for orthodontic or periodontal reasons, when they have difficulty talking (short tongue fraenum). It is better to release a short tongue fraenum the sooner, before it causes verbal problems in a child. We do this microsurgery at our dental clinic, either with classical surgery or using laser under the influence of local anesthetic.

It is a microsurgery in which we expose a greater part of a tooth, either for biological or orthodontic purposes, where we uncover an impacted or semi-impacted tooth and put it in its position orthodontically.

Whenever we realize from the clinical and radiographic evaluation that a tooth in the mouth cavity can or must no longer remain, then it must be extracted. Extraction may be simple or surgical, under the influence of local anesthetic. In the simple extraction, a sufficient part of the tooth is seen in the mouth, and it is extracted. We give postoperative instructions, although medication or stitches are usually not required. As is often the case with wisdom teeth, little or no part of the tooth is seen in the mouth cavity in surgical extraction. A gum incision is then required, sometimes with removal of a quantity of bone that prevents tooth extraction, and eventually followed by the stitching and administration of postoperative instructions and medication.

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