Today, older adults are routinely classified into different categories based on their degrees of independence. However, due to the extreme heterogeneity this group, and fact that ageing is a progressive process, may require customized prosthetic treatment. Older people, during ageing, quickly pass frail condition, with loss independence manual skills necessary for proper hygiene maintenance. Wi...

Peri-implantitis represents a major complication that can compromise the success and survival of implant-supported rehabilitations. Both surgical and nonsurgical treatment protocols were proposed to improve clinical parameters and to treat implants affected by peri-implantitis. A systematic review of the literature was performed on electronic databases. The use of air-polishing powder in surgic...

AIM The aim of this report is to describe the restorative treatment of an 18-year-old patient diagnosed with autosomal recessive hypocalcified-hypoplastic amelogenesis imperfecta (AI). BACKGROUND Esthetic and functional rehabilitations in AI cases are challenging and should consider individual aspects, such as age, socioeconomic status, AI type, and intraoral condition. REPORT AI was diagno...

The prosthodontic treatment must provide for the edentulous patients bio-functional prosthetic restorations, bio-prophylactic for the surrounding tissues. In this aim, an edentulous patient must be submitted to a methodical clinical examination in order to establish the quality of hard and soft tissues, which will indicate the degree of difficulty of the prosthetic treatment. Additional investi...

The replacement of teeth by implants is usually restricted to patients with completed craniofacial growth. Implant insertions in children or adolescents are circumvented due to several unfavorable potential effects including trauma to tooth germs, tooth eruption disorders and multidimensional restrictions of skeletal craniofacial growth. Moreover, the functional and esthetic results of the oral...

A 54-year-old female presented with intermittent pain over right shoulder off and on for 1 month. She did not recall any associated major trauma, but she was a retired teacher who frequently needed raising right shoulder for writing on blackboard. Physical examinations only showed a swelling mass about 2 × 1 cm with mild tenderness over right shoulder joint and mild limited of range of motion. ...

Prostate cancer treatment can significantly impact erectile function, and penile rehabilitation has been proposed to improve the impacts. However, effectiveness of rehabilitations after prostate is scarce. The aim this systematic review was evaluate different interventions program treatment. We conducted a comprehensive search electronic databases, PubMed Google Scholar, identify randomized con...