Full mouth rehabilitation always claims careful attention and meticulous treatment planning. It becomes more challenging with the partial edentulism where bilateral segment is found missing. Successful restoration can be done with plenty of contemporary and conventional treatment planning. Attachment retained partial dentures are one such kind of treatment modality in prosthodontics. Studies ha...

Adult health surveys worldwide highlight that the demographics of the adult population are changing dramatically. Older people are predicted to have increasingly longer life expectancies. By 2033 it is anticipated that 23% of the population will be aged 65 or over. There is an increasing trend for tooth preservation and older age groups are retaining their teeth longer which has brought new cha...

It has been estimated that 18% of the adult population of the United States is edentulous.1 Epidemiologically, however, little is known about the edentulous. This report describes some of the characteristics of a group of edentulous persons and compares them with those of dentulous persons. Of the social and physiologic measurements obtained during the initial investigation in the Tecumseh Comm...