Daily Archives: April 28, 2012

Flipper tooth # 25

Flipper tooth #25

I am a 52 year old dentist in practice in Palm Harbor, the Tampa area of Florida.

When someone says “Flipper” to me, I think of the dolphin on TV that I remember as a child…  Flipper was so smart.  His human friends included a father (a fish and game warden) and two of his sons.  They lived somewhere in Florida ( I do not think it was Tampa or Palm Harbor.)

Fast forward more than two decades, Columbia Dental School (1981 -1985) and now all of a sudden a flipper is no longer a very smart mammal that lives in the water, a dental flipper is a temporary all acrylic replacement tooth.  Total paradigm shift.  Flipper the animal actor swims, dental flippers temporarily replace missing teeth.

In this picture a flipper to replace missing tooth #25 is seen.  This was made in my Palm Harbor FL dentist office.  In most instances, the ideal definitive replacement is a dental implant with a crown on it.  Mini dental implants are most commonly used in this location.

In my Palm Harbor, Tampa Bay FL area dentist office I place both “regular” dental implants and mini dental implants.  I have been placing and restoring dental implants in the Tampa Bay area since 1989.