Redesigning Smile Using an Immediate Ovate Pontic

Clinical success of fixed prosthodontics is dependent in part upon the type of pontic design. Advances in the field of restorative materials allow a lost tooth to be replaced by an artificial tooth structure that is virtually indiscernible from the original. However, in fixed partial dentures, the standards for the pontic area and the adjacent soft tissue in the maxillary anterior region have increased in particular. The pontic design in this region is primarily influenced by aesthetic and phonetic considerations, thus a valuable solution to provide a natural, aesthetic and immediate restoration is the use an ovate pontic design.