2010 – VOLUME 39 – Issue 2

Although single tooth missing situations are extremely frequent, a final rational treatment decision based on a single treatment option is not always easy due to two main reasons:
- it is a situation requiring the examination and analysis of several clinical parameters.
- this situation offers one of the widest treatment range.
In the previous article (Part 1), we studied the main factors that might play an important role in the treatment decisionmaking process. In this second article, clinical cases are used to illustrate how treatment decisions can be taken by analysing the decision making criteria.