Cynthia kassis, and Pierre El Khoury
St Joseph University, Lebanon
Title: Treatment options for edentulous patients: Surgical and prosthetic overview
Biography
Biography: Cynthia kassis, and Pierre El Khoury
Abstract
Treatment of the edentulous patients poses a number of challenges. Expectations regarding the esthetics of the defi nitive prosthesis may be high. The treatment of completely toothless patients using oral implants does not always allow the insertion of adequate number implants to ensure a fi xed construction, the reasons ranging from anatomical, or health restrictions to fi nancial limitations. Multiple surgical approaches are available in order to provide this type of treatment such as sinus graft ing, maxillary osteotomies as well as horizontal augmentations. The loss of teeth and use of a removable prosthesis can result in continued alveolar bone atrophy in both the vertical and horizontal dimensions. Th e use of dental implants to stabilize dentures has proven to be successful for many people, these include decreased bone resorption. This presentation presents a simplifi ed surgical and prosthodontic’s approach. Although we discuss the many advantages of implant-supported overdentures.
