Oral Health and Dental Management

Treatment options for edentulous patients: Surgical and prosthetic overview

3^rd Euro Congress and Expo on Dental & Oral Health

June 16-18, 2015 Alicante, Spain

Cynthia kassis1, and Pierre El Khoury2

Scientific Tracks Abstracts: Oral Health Dent Manag

Abstract:

Treatment of the edentulous patients poses a number of challenges. Expectations regarding the esthetics of the definitive 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 fixed construction, the reasons ranging from anatomical, or health restrictions to financial limitations. Multiple surgical approaches are available in order to provide this type of treatment such as sinus grafting, 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. The use of dental implants to stabilize dentures has proven to be successful for many people, these include decreased bone resorption. This presentation presents a simplified surgical and prosthodontic?s approach. Although we discuss the many advantages of implant-supported overdentures.

Biography :

Cynthia kassis is working in Faculty of Dental Medicine, St JosephUniversity,Beirut,Lebanon,Department of Esthetic and Restorative Dentistry, BDS Faculty of Dental Medicine, St Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon, Master?s Degree (MSc) of Oral Surgery, DU Esthetic and Restorative Dentistry, DU Oral Pathology. ShePublished more than 10 papers in reputed journals.