Treatment of edentulous patients using implant supported mandibular overdentures improves quality of life

• The standard of care for the edentulous patient has been the provision of a complete denture, however a large proportion of patients have problems with the retention and stability of the mandibular complete denture • Pre-prosthetic surgery(PPS) has a history of poor prognosis • The McGill Consensus states that the two implant mandibular overdenture should be considered as a first choice standard of care • Compared to complete dentures and PPS, improvements have been demonstrated in areas such as patient satisfaction, nutrition, and quality-of-life • Quality-of-life is a useful method to demonstrate treatment success, however, the use of individualized quality-of-life measures may prove more relevant in the future CLINICAL POINTS