Implant Esthetics: Managing the Single Tooth Challenge

About This Case

Single-tooth restorations are among the hardest cases in cosmetic dentistry — every variable matters when there's no second tooth to compensate. This case, with Nelson Rego, CDT, AAACD, works through abutment design that mirrors natural contours, provisionalization that guides tissue behavior, and the documentation that lets your lab replicate translucency, crack lines, and surface texture. Both analog and digital impression methods are compared.