Re: Implants or Endodontics ? What is ethical.

[Anonymous]

There is no material that can replace a natural tooth….hence the obvious option is a RCT
Though it is left upto the clinicians discretion as to what the prognosis of the tooth would be….a second opinion is always helpful.

A pointer in cases of FPD where an abutment would be an implant, one must take care that if one of the abutments is an implant and the other is a natural tooth, such a condition isn’t favourable, this is because a combination abutment of natural and implant tooth would lead to undue forces on the natural toooth
This is because the natural tooth has some amount of physiologic mobility where as an implanted abutment doesn’t, this leads to unbalanced forces leading to future failure of the fpd.