The aim of the study is to analyze the effectiveness of rigid internal fixation (RIF) for treating edentulous mandibular fractures. Because of the low incidence of fractures in edentulous mandible, there is no consensus of the optimal treatment for it. This study included all edentulous patients with mandibular fracture diagnosis, who were treated with internal fixation at the Hospital Italiano...

ENTISTRY HAS assumed a leadership position among the health sciences by its early commitment to preventive care. Fluoride applications alone have substantially reduced the economic and human suffering caused by oral disease.' However, the Commitment by the profession has largely overlooked the edentulous patient, concentrating on the young in the effort to protect and preserve the natural denti...

OBJECTIVES To assess the bone density in maxilla and mandible in dentate and edentulous patients in Saudi population. METHODS This study involved a retrospective analysis of cone beam CT images of 100 patients (50 male and 50 female) who have come to College of Dentistry, University of Dammam, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia between January 2014 and 2015. Using the bone density option in the ...

OBJECTIVES The present study was undertaken to review the significance of pre-treatment panoramic radiographic assessment of edentulous patients, in the dental patient population of Haryana, India. STUDY DESIGN In this study a total of 525 completely edentulous patients were selected randomly. A panoramic radiograph was taken using Panoramic machine (Rotagraph plus) and all the radiographs we...

The aim of the study was to assess the rate of mandibular residual ridge resorption in edentulous patients and to analyse the factors which determine this process. A group of 35 edentulous patients aged between 51 and 89 years, with a mean age of 74 (65-78) years, were included in the study. Individual factors (age, gender and duration of edentulousness), local biochemical parameters (oral hygi...

Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the Turkish version of Geriatric Oral Health Assessment Index (GOHAI-TR) and Impact Profile for Edentulous (OHIP-EDENT-TR) in edentulous geriatric patients using a total prosthesis. Material Methods: Twelve items GOHAI 19 OHIP-EDENT were translated into back-translation technique. A 32 complete participants answered GOHAI-TR OHIP-EDENT-TR indexes twice at two d...

A classification for partially edentulous maxillectomy dental arches is proposed. This classification is based on the frequency of occurrence of maxillary defects in a population of 123 patients.

The aim of this multicenter study was to evaluate cumulative success and survival rates of ITI implants after 7 years. A complete medical report was obtained for all 440 patients enrolled in this investigation, which involved 10 different private practices. The 1,022 consecutively placed implants were distributed between completely edentulous, partially edentulous, and single-tooth replacement ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the rehabilitation of edentulous mandibles with osseous integrated implants in immediate loading, using models in reverse planning. METHODS A prospective study was performed on 14 patients with a total of 56 implants placed. It was proposed a technique for the rehabilitation of edentulous mandible with osseous integrated implants of immediate loading, using anatomical repl...