Conservative Approaches to Replacing Congenitally Missing Maxillary Lateral Incisors: Case Series.

Management of missing lateral incisors presents a challenge to attaining optimum esthetics and must be preceded by careful examination of areas of missing teeth and the relationship to adjacent soft and hard tissues. This case series describes various approaches and techniques for managing missing lateral incisors. These techniques were chosen depending mainly on the amount of space in mesiodistal and insiocervical dimensions. The amount of underlying bone played an important role in selecting the treatment modalities.