Patients with complete or partial edentulism who have insufficient bone for endosseous dental implant treatment present a challenge for the dental practitioner. Alveolar distraction osteogenesis is a technique for creating bone and soft tissue, without the need for bone grafting and its potential complications. In this article, alveolar distraction osteogenesis is compared with traditional bone...

A meta-analytic technique was used to estimate the survival of implants supporting bridges or single crowns in partially edentulous patients. A survey of the literature revealed 66 studies, published between 1986 and 1996. Nine studies on single implants and 10 studies on fixed partial dentures met the inclusion criteria for the meta-analysis. Data from a total of 2686 implants, 570 single crow...

OBJECTIVE Teeth and muscles play a very important role for occlusal equilibrium and function. When tooth loss begins, it may also affect the function of the muscle tissues. METHODS The thickness of the masseter and anterior temporalis muscles were measured bilaterally in 30 healthy fully dentate adults and in 30 unilateral edentulous patients by using ultrasonographic imaging. All scans were ...

Edentulism is the major problem in the developing countries, and is widely spread in the current population, although the prevalence is declining and incidence of tooth loss is decreasing in the developed nations. The prevalence of edentulism in India varies from 60% to 69% of 25 years and above age group. It is obvious that the number of lost teeth increases with age leading to an increase in ...

The use of osseointegrated dental implants has become a successful procedure for the treatment of complete and partial edentulism. Numerous studies, both retrospective and prospective, have shown that edentulous patients were treated with osseointegrated implants for all applications, e.g. complete edentulism, partial edentulism, and more recently, single-tooth applications. Today, over 10000 p...

To describe the sociodemographic conditions, need for oral rehabilitation and access to dental services elderly people enrolled in Senior Living Center city of Altamira-Pa. A social action was carried out with 61 people, 47 female 14 male. As rehabilitation, both genders used prosthesis total (72,1%) partial (50,8%) were considered inappropriate 27,9%. Edentulism evidenced as a public health pr...

Background and aim Given the importance of evaluating the maxillary sinus lateral wall thickness (LWT) to avoid complications during surgery, the aim of this study was to examine LWT as well as the effect of residual ridge height (RH), edentulous region, type of edentulism, age and gender on it. Methods In this cross-sectional study conducted in 2016, 150 samples of the CBCT imaging archives ...

ABSTRACT:There is a need to create rehabilitation solutions for partial edentulism in the posterior maxilla, thereby reducing the need for grafting in these areas. The purpose of this study was to report the results of partial edentulism rehabilitation in the posterior maxilla with a threeto four-unit bridge supported by two implants: anterior implant placed in axial position and posterior impl...

Full mouth rehabilitation always claims careful attention and meticulous treatment planning. It becomes more challenging with the partial edentulism where bilateral segment is found missing. Successful restoration can be done with plenty of contemporary and conventional treatment planning. Attachment retained partial dentures are one such kind of treatment modality in prosthodontics. Studies ha...