The patient requested a conservative, but above all invisible, treatment.
The patient was treated with ceramic
veneers
and direct restorations, preserving all the available healthy tissue.
The central incisor had an old, extensive restoration, which the patient feared removing due to the risk of undergoing long and expensive therapies. In reality, the tooth was treated in a single session, through a direct restorative treatment, based on a project elaborated with the patient. The tooth also maintained its pulp vitality unchanged!
When the tooth, alas, no longer has opportunities to be maintained, the implant represents a choice of election. However, it is very important, especially in aesthetically sensitive areas, to manage the gingival tissues correctly to confer maximum aesthetics and functionality to the final work.
Here is a case increasingly common in these 2000s! Often patients erode dental surfaces with disproportionate consumption of so-called "soft drinks" (cola, cold teas, isotonic drinks), which besides being cariogenic (i.e., predisposing to decay) also determine erosion of the enamel matrix. And almost always these patients are young! Anorexia and bulimia also cause similar lesions, but initially the anterior teeth are more affected, in their palatal portions.