SOURCE: Department of Prosthodontics, Crown & Bridge, and Implantology, Tagore Dental College and Hospital, Rathinamangalam,Vandalur Post,Chennai-600127 , India.www.tagoredch.com BACKGROUND: Panoramic radiography is a valuable diagnostic tool in the pretreatment assessment of partially and completely edentulous patients.Many investigators recommended routine radiographic examination for the ede...

The purpose of this study was to study the stability of teeth adjacent to posterior edentulous spaces and correlate it with patient age and time lapse since tooth loss. Dental casts, panoramic radiographs, and questionnaires of patients treated in a University setting were employed. Teeth adjacent and opposing posterior edentulous spaces were examined for the following parameters: Supraeruption...

PATIENT A patient visited our hospital for fabrication of functional complete dentures to resolve masticatory disturbance. The case was diagnosed as edentulous jaws with inadequate mandibular position and movement. Therefore, new complete dentures were fabricated and set without reference to the old dentures. DISCUSSION For the diagnosis, clinical treatment and recall, each objective examinat...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the feasibility of using panoramic radiographs as an alternative to an interocclusal recording method for determining the condylar guidance in dentate and edentulous conditions. MATERIALS AND METHODS 20 dentulous individuals with an age range of 20-30 years and 20 edentulous patients of 40-65 years were selected. An interocclusal bite registration was done in protrusive...

BACKGROUND Infections in the oral and maxillofacial region can sometimes extend beyond the oral cavity, with serious consequences. Most oral infections are odontogenic, occurring through the root apex of the tooth or the periodontal pocket. It thus makes sense that edentulous patients have a much lower risk of oral bacterial infection. For this reason, while there are many reports on systemic i...

Aim: To assess the dental prosthetic status of a sample of psychiatric in-patients in South Wales; the objectives were to evaluate the conditions of the dentures and to assess the patients’ satisfaction with the dentures. Design: Examination of patients was carried out in seven psychiatric hospitals in South Wales, and included the prosthetic status and presence of oral pathology. Patients were...

Replacement of missing teeth has become a successful option ever since the discovery of Osseointegration and introduction of implants in the dental field. It has proved to be a therapeutic breakthrough especially for edentulous people. Implants supported over dentures are becoming the first choice of treatment for edentulous patients as they provide various advantages over the conventional dent...

To investigate whether there are differences in patients' denture satisfaction when an implant placed in the midline of the edentulous mandible is loaded either immediately or three months later, after second-stage surgery. One hundred and fifty-eight edentulous patients received a single implant in the midline of the mandible. After randomisation, it was loaded either immediately after implant...

Dental rehabilitation by complete dentures is a state-of-the-art approach to improve functional aspects of the oral cavity of edentulous patients. It is important to assure that these dentures have a sufficient fit. We introduce a dataset of 13 edentulous patients that have been recorded with and without complete dentures in situ. These patients have been rated an insufficient fit of their dent...

The percentage of completely and partially edentulous patients and their prosthetic treatment at the Department of Substitutive Dental Sciences (SDS), College of Dentistry, University of Dammam, were investigated. Panoramic radiographs and medical records of adult patients (n = 479, mean age 45.9 years, and range 25-96 years) treated in 2011-2014 were examined. 6% of the patients were completel...