Chipped Implant Crown ... need fixing?

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Alex Papadimoulis - 16 Aug 2006 06:07 GMT

Hi Group,

First and foremost, I appreciate all of your excellent advise; it helps
save me an office visit (or, more realistically, convinces me that I
*should not* skip an office visit).

Anyway, simple question, I think. I chipped off a decent sized chunk of
the crown placed over an implant post. The Post is showing a wee bit
through the porcelain. Since there's no underlying tooth structure (as
I heard from another post), is it safe to wait until my next regular
visit (6 or 8 from now)? Do I need to get this fixed?

Thanks in advance

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Richard M. Geis - 19 Aug 2006 22:16 GMT

Unless you have an all porcelain crown, the metal you see is a coping
that the porcelain is fused to, it should be gray as opposed to shinny
metal. If this is the case you can wait for 6 to 8 months. If it is all
porcelain, it could crack away at any time, and if that happens you
shouldn't wait 6 to 8 hours as food could pack into the screw access hole.

By the way, all porcelain crowns and porcelain to metal crowns comprise
95% of implant crowns (estimate), you have a 1 in 20 chance of having
something else.

Alex Papadimoulis wrote:

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