The implant is covered with a replacement tooth called a crown.
Tooth length in the specimen is very variable, which the authors explained by the presence of recently erupted replacement teeth.
But already the replacement tooth was pushing up.
Eighteen months after her jaw was broken, Sobrero is hoping to get a replacement tooth soon.
Both erupted and replacement teeth were removed.
A single tooth row includes one or more functional teeth at the front of the jaw, and multiple replacement teeth behind this.
The first three pairs in the praemaxilla are very small though; the describers assumed these were replacement teeth, recently erupted.
Then a replacement tooth, or crown, is attached to the metal post.
Dental implants provide strong support for replacement teeth.
The Egyptians bind replacement teeth together with gold wire.