Healthcare meets Aesthetics: New approaches to the complex oral rehabilitations with implant-supported dental prostheses

Roberto Scrascia, Pietro Venezia

Abstract

Edentulism can lead to significant functional impairment as well as unfavourable aesthetic and psychological changes in patients. Main problems include restrictions in diet, speech impairment and loss of bone tissue in the zone where the teeth are missing. Many patients choose to retard the replacement of missing teeth for economic reasons, as they believe that overdenture prosthesis can mean poor quality or poor aesthetics.

The modern dentistry has greatly improved the quality of overdenture prosthesis on dental implants. Nowadays, such rehabilitative solution is considered as a fair compromise between economic and biological factors, without renouncing to top-quality aesthetics; but today we still need to stress the concept of good aesthetics as key-factor in improving the overall quality of life of our patients. The implant-supported overdenture can solve complex rehabilitative cases with a pretty easy prosthetic planning, ensuring highly-conservative surgery and great aesthetics, also thanks to the most advanced implants technologies and components.

In this clinical case, we will improve the function and aesthetics in a patient that will benefit from a clinical and psychological point of view.
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