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Question: I am about to get porcelain laminate veneers on my top 10 teeth, but one tooth is missing. I will need an implant, but am concerned that the crown on this tooth will not match the veneers on the adjacent teeth.

Answer: Your aesthetic scenario has challenged us tooth docs for decades. A veneer is a thin facing of porcelain that is permanently adhered to the front surface of the tooth for cosmetic purposes.

Some degree of your natural tooth shining through the veneer allows for a natural looking “warmth” and transluscency. To accomplish this with a tooth being replaced by a metallic, gray metal titanium implant takes some ingenuity.

We are now able to select tooth-colored custom implant abutment posts to anchor metal-free, all-porcelain crowns to their respective implant. These tooth colored abutments act as your adjacent real teeth that have been prepared for veneers.

I will be covering this topic at my next seminar.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Dr. Josephs will be giving…………… continues on Palm Beach Post

Updated: February 3, 2012 1:50PM

When we lived in the city, my wife and I would load our two small boys into a big double stroller I called “the bus” and roll on over to the Lincoln Park Zoo to see our friend Adelor, the lion. He would welcome us with a low reverberating roar that you’d feel vibrating your sternum. That was in the late 1990s.

Old Adelor wasn’t looking so good last time we saw him, last fall, on one of our infrequent forays from the suburbs. He was piebald and thin. He did not roar. I remember thinking he was not long for this world.

He wasn’t. The Lincoln Park Zoo had to put him to sleep Wednesday, at age 18.

The sad news was relayed by fellow reporter Kara Spak, and reached me on Facebook, where my 2,329 Facebook friends share news of the world, plus photos o…………… continues on Chicago Sun-Times