Primary teeth, baby tooth, pediatric dentistry, kids dentist, children

Pictures of Dentistry
and Dental Procedures

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Primary teeth, baby tooth, pediatric dentistry, kids dentist, children
Image	Photo Description
	Acute periodontal gum abscess infection around a deciduous baby canine tooth that needed tooth extraction by a Pediatric Dentist. The extracted baby tooth is seen in the next photo.
	Before and after pictures show a porcelain dental crown - cap - placed on an upper peg lateral incisor tooth #10. Root canal therapy was also performed. Peg laterals are not usual.
	Full Mouth Dental Reconstruction - oral rehabilitation - for a 30 year old female who had many missing adult teeth, retained baby teeth - partial anodontia - and a closed bite occlusion. Before and after pictures taken three weeks apart. A Pediatric Dentist was unable to help this patient in childhood resulting in the need for a smile makeover before attending law school.
	How to cosmetic dentistry pictures show treatment for a retained baby tooth and an impacted adult canine tooth. After tooth extraction and healing of the deciduous baby tooth the labial surface of the impacted adult canine tooth received cosmetic dental bonding to close the remaining tooth gap space. The patient refused pediatric dentist advice as a child and refused orthodontics as an adult.
	Tooth extraction of a retained deciduous primary baby tooth and placement of a dental implant in a 37 year old female. How to pictures. 1) Intra oral photo of the retained baby tooth in the second premolar position. 2) Radiograph x-ray of this tooth. Retained primary baby teeth can remain in the mouth many years; this primary tooth was finally getting loose in this 37 year old! 3) Primary closure after tooth removal and dental implant placement. The dental implant was placed by the Oral Surgeon at the same time as the tooth extraction because the extracted tooth was not infected and its removal did not leave a void in the jaw bone. 4) This photo shows the initial location of the first stage dental implant four months later. 5) Occlusal photo after removal of the dental implant healing screw at four months. 6) Radiograph x-ray at four months. 7) The dental implant healing collar in place. 8) Radiograph xray of the dental implant with healing collar in place.
Information about these dental photos In medicine and dentistry "left" and "right" are based upon the orientation of the patient's body and not how they appear in a photograph of a smile. For example, a reference to the upper left teeth will actually appear to be on the right side when viewing a picture of the face and similarly an upper right tooth will appear to be on the left side. Many words in dentistry like oral and mouth have a similar meaning and are frequently used together to help our readers find specific words they best understand. This is particularly important because a majority of our visitors are from countries where English is not their primary language. Maxilla or maxillary refer to the upper jaw. Mandible or mandibular refer to the lower jaw. There are many other similar word combinations used throughout this website because our pages are read by patients and dentists. A few of the most common are discussed here. Tooth decay, tooth cavity and dental caries all mean the same thing. Tooth, teeth and dental are also frequently interchanged as in teeth veneers or dental veneer laminate. Oral rehabilitation and dental reconstruction mean smile makeover. The word for x-ray may be used with or without a hyphen (this is true for other words too) and can also be called a radiograph.