An innovative design in a mandibular overdenture with too-lingualy-inserted implants: A case report
Prosthetic rehabilitation of patients with unfavorable-implant-position or problematic implant angulation is complicated. A completely-edentulous-patient with lower lip squamous-cell-carcinoma had undergone resective surgery twice. After radiotherapy of a total dose of 60cGy of 30 sessions for about...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Tehran University of Medical Sciences
2017-10-01
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Series: | Journal of Craniomaxillofacial Research |
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Online Access: | https://jcr.tums.ac.ir/index.php/jcr/article/view/174 |
Summary: | Prosthetic rehabilitation of patients with unfavorable-implant-position or problematic implant angulation
is complicated. A completely-edentulous-patient with lower lip squamous-cell-carcinoma had undergone resective surgery twice. After radiotherapy of a total dose of 60cGy of 30 sessions
for about 3 months, moderate trismus was developed. Mouth commisurotomy was accomplished in order to insert three implants in the mandibular-anterior-region. Two distal implants were excessively tilted to achieve better biomechanical advantages and to obtain greater anterior-posterior-
distance which made prosthetic rehabilitation of the patient challenging. In the mandibular-custom-tray a lingual “window” was designed to accommodate the open-impression-copings.
Trial-denture-bases were tried-in. A putty index was recorded from arranged-mandibular-teeth. According to this index, a zigzag bar similar to letter “M” was designed using custom abutments. So that three ball anchors were placed on this “M-designed-bar” (MDB) more labial than the inserted
implants to support the mandibular-implant-supported-overdenture. Using MDB permits teeth-set-up with minimal interfere with tongue function. The major disadvantage of this design is its inevitable-buccal-cantilever. Distolingual areas of mandibular tray were border-molded excessively in order to overcome this problem and to increase stability and also to reduce detrimental-lateral forces to implants.
Key words: Dental Implants, Implant-Supported Denture Prosthesis. |
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ISSN: | 2345-5489 2345-6213 |