introduction: the aim of this study was to investigate whether there is any relationship between the condition of complete dentures and tmds. methods: the sample consisted of 61 consecutive patients (35 females and 26 males) who were admitted to the department of prosthodontics of mashhad faculty of dentistry for fabrication of new complete dentures.  the age range of the participants was betwe...

background: increasedlife expectancy in populations has brought along specific new scenarios in the fields of medicine for the elderly; prevalence of physical complications such as edentulism and patients with dentures is growing. management of anesthesia and ventilation in this group of patients has turned into a great challenge. some researchers suggest dentures to be left in place during bag...

treatment planning poses difficulties in edentulous patients for orthognathic surgery prediction and fixation.treatment of severe class iii malocclusion frequently requires orthognathic surgical procedures. for such patients, orthognathic surgery would be the only option before prosthetic rehabilitation.this clinical report describes step-by-step fabrication of a surgical splint for an edentulo...

background and aims . peri-implantitis is a chronic progressive marginal infection which is defined as an inflammato-ry reaction affecting the tissues surrounding osseointegrated dental implants resulting in loss of supporting bone. microflora of patients with implants who are edentulous mainly consists of gram positive facultative cocci and non motile rods. pre-dominantly, streptococcus sangui...

abstract introductiion. there are a lot of edentulous patients who need complete dentures in any society. one of the most important problems of edentulous patients is remaining dental lesions. atrophy of maxillary or mandibular bone, infections abcesses, tumors and so on are among some other problems. in this study we tried to evaluate the panoramic radiography in order to detect these problems...

The number of partially and completely edentulous patients requiring removable prosthetic treatment has increased constantly and denture wearers often have an associated oral status pathology. The purpose of this article is to present removable prosthetic treatment options that we chose for the extended partially edentulous and completely edentulous patients who required prosthetic rehabilitati...

PURPOSE This study was performed to evaluate the reproducibility of panoramic radiographs of dentulous and edentulous patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS The reproducibility of panoramic radiographs was evaluated using the panoramic radiographs acquired from 30 anterior dentulous patients by using a common biting positioning device (dentulous group) and 30 anterior edentulous patients by using ch...

BACKGROUND Maxillomandibular advancement (MMA) surgery is a surgical treatment option for treating the patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Surgical treatment of OSA by MMA surgery is a problem when it is encountered with an edentulous patient because of the intermaxillary fixation problem of the jaws. A paucity of information is available concerning MMA surgery for edentulous patients....

Edentulous patients presenting with atrophic ridges and severe prognathic ridge relation are difficult to rehabilitate. Correction of the malrelation of the jaws is an absolute prerequisite for their successful prosthetic rehabilitation. A majority of the established surgical techniques to correct combined sagittal and vertical discrepancies of edentulous jaws are often prolonged and complex wi...