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Assuming that there is no bacterial infection, and the normal healing process occurs, the space will eventually "disappear." What happens is that the bone supporting the tooth, or the tooth socket, will resorb. If it was the last molar in the arch, then you don't have anything to worry about, the teeth will not likely shift back into that space. The teeth tend to shift forward, so if there is a molar behind the empty space, it may "drift" and eventually fill in the space, at least to some degree. This is not desirable, and most people avoid this problem by getting a bridge, which replaces the lost tooth with a fake one (pontic). This fake tooth will be connected to and stabilized by the teeth adjacent to it.

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