This case shows an existing fixed prosthesis with a cantilevered left bicuspid that was purposely left when the posterior teeth underneath the left side of the bridge had to be removed, fig. 17. The bicuspid pontic is then prepared for a telescopic coping with a distally extended hollow tube to engage the anterior portion of the ramus cable, figs. 18, 19, 20. The groove is made on the buccal side of the ramus, fig. 21, and the ramus blade is tapped into proper "upward" alignment, figs. 22, 23. The hollow tube is fitted over the cable, figs. 24, 25, and the coping is tapped downward to engage the prepared cantilevered pontic, fig. 26. One week later the tissue

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