There was a CT scan of my mouth, and then a bolt was selected and a ceramic tooth created that would accurately fill the gap. It works just like a real tooth, except it is slightly chunkier (but it's chunkier in the direction that points inside my mouth, so I'm the only person who can tell).
It felt pretty high-tech to me, although the article mentions that the first titanium dental implant was placed in 1965.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_implant
There was a CT scan of my mouth, and then a bolt was selected and a ceramic tooth created that would accurately fill the gap. It works just like a real tooth, except it is slightly chunkier (but it's chunkier in the direction that points inside my mouth, so I'm the only person who can tell).
It felt pretty high-tech to me, although the article mentions that the first titanium dental implant was placed in 1965.