11/08/2026
🦷 FIXING AN OPEN BITE WITH SHOULDER PREPARATION & NORITAKE KATANA ZIRCONIA
An open bite is not only an aesthetic concern — it can affect occlusion, chewing efficiency, anterior guidance, speech, and long-term functional stability.
In carefully selected cases, a comprehensive prosthetic rehabilitation can restore both function and smile aesthetics.
For this case, the rehabilitation was designed with:
🔹 Precise shoulder preparation
🔹 Noritake Katana zirconia crowns
🔹 Restoration of anterior tooth contact
🔹 Re-establishment of proper occlusal relationships
🔹 Improved anterior guidance
🔹 Harmonization of tooth proportions and smile line
🔹 Natural emergence profiles and gingival integration
Why Shoulder Preparation?
A well-defined shoulder finish line provides the ceramic technician with sufficient and controlled restorative space, allowing the zirconia crowns to be designed with proper contours, marginal definition, strength, and aesthetics.
Why Noritake Katana Zirconia?
Noritake Katana combines high-strength zirconia technology with excellent optical properties, allowing us to create restorations that are strong enough for extensive rehabilitation while maintaining a highly natural appearance.
🎯 The objective is not simply to “close the open bite.”
The objective is to reconstruct the occlusion so that function, stability, phonetics and aesthetics work together as one system.
Shoulder Preparation × Noritake Katana Zirconia × Occlusal Rehabilitation
Dr. med. dent. Cem Baysal, PhD, MSc
Master in Oral Implantology and Surgery
Oral Diagnosis & Radiology Specialist
Asst. Professor | Head of Radiology Department
Istanbul Kent University, Türkiye