ABSTRACT Purpose: The aim of the study was to evaluate crestal bone height changes around laser grooved implants with mandibular overdenture. Materials and Methods: sample comprised 10 completely edentulous male patients age range between 40-60 years. In each patient, two were placed in interforaminal area. Implants exposed after three months healing, ball abutments used retain dentures. Cresta...

Purpose: The aim of the following study was to assess and compare effect treatment with conventional complete dentures, two implant retained mandibular overdenture four supported on posterior residual ridge resorption over a 5-year period. Material methods 24 patients were selected from previous studies, where (group I) included 8 previously treated dentures. second group II) received using oss...

Implant-supported overdenture is a reliable treatment option for the patients with edentulous mandible when they have difficulty in using complete dentures. Several options have been used for implant-supported overdenture attachments. Among these, bar attachment system has greater retention and better maintainability than others. SFI-Bar® is prefabricated and can be adjustable at chairside. The...

PRINCIPLES OF OVERDENTURE ON ONE-PIECE NARROW DENTAL IMPLANTS IN PATIENTS WITH DIFFERENT PATTERNS OF MANDIBULAR RIDGE RESORPTION (Abstract). Aim: To highlight the particularities of mandibular overdenture on one-piece narrow dental implants in patients with two frequent and high-difficulty clinical situations, namely flat alveolar ridge (also known as severe ridge resorption, when mainly vertic...

The implant is a therapeutic resource in constant evolution, and the different types of implants and techniques have been increasingly used in cases of both fully or partially edentulous patients. In some cases they provide more conservative treatment, and in others better stability, retention, and function. To achieve a satisfactory result, there are several factors that should be taken into a...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate dental students' performance when fabricating a mandibular two-implant overdenture (OD) as compared to conventional dentures (CD) and to determine if these prostheses were successful. Twenty students and twenty patients were divided into two groups: complete denture group (CDG) and maxillary denture and two-implant OD group (ODG). Students' progress was...

For centuries dentists have been trying to modify conventional dentures to solve the occurring problem of retention and stability, also masticatory function is quite poor in comparison with that of healthy dentate subjects. Complete-denture wearers need up to 7 times more chewing strokes than subjects with a complete natural dentition to reduce the food to half of the original particle size. Bu...

Wei-Te Victor Lee, DDS, MS, MBA Visiting Doctor and Chief Department of Dentistry Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital No. 95, Wen Chang Road, Shih Lin District, Taipei City Tel: +886-2-28332211 #2182 Fax:+886-2-28389321 E-mail: [email protected] Abstract This report describes a patient with severely worn anterior teeth and early loss of posterior teeth from the mandible, resulting in a rest...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the stability of sleep quality and the impact of nocturnal use of complete dentures on sleep quality in an elderly edentulous population over a one-year period. MATERIALS AND METHODS Written informed consent was obtained from 172 edentulous elders who agreed to enrol in a longitudinal cohort study. A total of 153 participants completed the follow-up after one year. Perce...

One major challenge in treating head and neck oncologic patients is to achieve an acceptable recovery of physiologic functions compatible with the complete tumor excision. However, after tumor resection, some patients present a surgically altered anatomy incompatible with prosthetic rehabilitation, unless some soft tissue correction is carried out. The aim of the present study is to describe th...