Given the increasing life expectancy in the coming years, dental practitioners, as other specialists from different medical fields, will encounter an increasing number of complete edentulous patients. These patients, with a longer active life and higher standards of life quality, will have different expectations for their complete dentures, higher than the standard treatment that uses conventio...

Abstract The prosthodontic management of a patient with long-term edentulism is challenging. Conventional dentures have been the traditional standard care for longest time. However, most patients experience difficulty in adapting to their mandibular due lack stability and retention. From past two decades, implant-supported overdentures offering numerous advantages over complete removable partia...

Tooth supported overdenture with ball attachments has a number of advantages in prosthetics, but presents some difficulties as well, which sometimes make impossible the use of these anchoring systems; these difficulties should be well known. In this regard we present a suggestive case. It is the case of a patient, aged 57, who came for treatment, suffering from subtotal maxillary and mandibular...

A comprehensive review was conducted to answer the question 'Does the immediate loading of dental implants with an overdenture in the maxilla provide predictable clinical and psychological outcomes?' Detailed search strategies were used to identify pertinent articles in English that were published between 1975 and August 2013 and indexed in PubMed, MEDLINE, Embase, The Cochrane Central Register...

The retrospective study was conducted to assess the dental implants that experienced failure. It was conducted at the dental clinic of the Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, and comprised record of dental implants from July 2010 to June 2015. Variables such as patient age, gender and systemic status, length and diameter of implants, bone grafting, type of definitive prosthesis (crown or bri...

Materials and Methods: Seventy-six patients who received two or four interforaminal implants were assigned to one of three different bar designs and subsequently to different prosthesis supporting systems. Forty-nine patients received implants and a mucosa-supported implantretained overdenture (OD) with an ovoid bar (two implants; design 1) or multiple ovoid bars (four implants; design 2). Twen...

Oral rehabilitation in child is an odontopediatric challenge once the restorative treatament needs to be done quick procedures and few visits for maintain cooperative behaviour. With these objectives mind, present report describes oral using fixed prosthesis (overdenture) a 3-year-old boy who had early childhood caries whose dental roots been endodontically treated. The use of this device good ...

The retrospective study was conducted to assess the dental implants that experienced failure. It was conducted at the dental clinic of the Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, and comprised record of dental implants from July 2010 to June 2015. Variables such as patient age, gender and systemic status, length and diameter of implants, bone grafting, type of definitive prosthesis (crown or bri...

AIM The purpose of this article is to report the clinical course of a 12-year-old child with ectodermal dysplasia who was treated with an implant-supported overdenture for the mandible and an overdenture for the maxilla. CASE REPORT Two dental implants were placed in the canine regions of the mandible. The maxillary teeth were prepared for the milled copings. Because the preparation of parall...

An accelerated technique for casting a direct-pattern post and core restoration for use in fixed prosthodontics has been previously described. Similar techniques for use in removable prosthodontics show potential for clinical use, specifically for the fabrication of radicular stud overdenture attachments and their corresponding copings. The procedure uses a chairside technique and readily avail...