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All clinicians have their opinions whenever this scenario crops up. Ours is generally.... do the surgery once, do all the implants you will need and don't go back to take out teeth and replace with another implant.
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Yep. The Eastman view (iirc) was thats it better to root canal and cap teeth as implants have a finite lifespan. If you can get 10-15 years out of the root canal, and after that go to an implant (which gives you another 10-15 years) then you're sorted for a while.
There were a few of these "clinically best" vs "quickest and best aesthetic outcome" decisions
cookiemonster
I think the underlying stuff is all good. That was one of my differences with Eastman - my preference was to stick four implants in and be done with it, whereas they were insistent that the clinically best approach was to keep two of the teeth - which always gives an option of implants at a later date as a fallback