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Volume 35 , Issue 5
September/October 2015
Pages 697-705

Implant Site Development by Horizontal Tooth Movement to an Esthetic Area: A Case Report

Yoshiyuki Wada, DDS, PhD/Harunori Yoshimura, DDS, PhD/Itaru Mikami, DDS, PhD/Kousuke Matsuzawa, DDS, PhD/Morimichi Mizuno, DDS, PhD

PMID: 26357699
DOI: 10.11607/prd.2019

This case report describes the treatment of a woman who lost a central incisor. The socket developed severe tissue defects. She rejected hard and soft tissue management and the use of biomaterials. The lateral incisor was moved mesially with orthodontic treatment. The tissue defects were filled with the alveolar bone of the moved tooth and adequate bone volume was generated behind it. An implant was placed in the space that was generated without any tissue augmentation. The moved tooth had sound periodontal tissue and was restored without preparation. The horizontal tooth movement enabled an esthetic outcome with minimal intervention.

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