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Case Studies | Dental Medicine | Bulgaria | Volume 12 Issue 2, February 2023 | Rating: 5.7 / 10
Prosthetic Rehabilitation of Completely Edentulous Patient by the Means of Digital Technologies
Abstract: Introduction: Nowadays the digital technologies become an essential part of daily practice. They offer faster, easier, cheaper and more predictable treatment result to be achieved.The major advantage of this new approach is the opportunity to merge different images). By collecting data from intraoral or extraoral scanners, CBCT, MRI or/and facial scanner the whole planning procedure and denture fabrication can be done digitally. This reduces the patient?s visits, saves clinical time, can make the treatment cheaper and provides much more clinical information which dental technician can use for the denture fabrication. Actually, this approach has one major negative ? the error accumulation.Having in mind the errors accumulated during these two stages (data collecting and data processing) the discrepancies between the real intraoral structures and their digital image can be significant.In order to reduce the possible discrepancies, a specific hybrid approach in restoration planning and fabrication can be used.Actually, this well arranged treatment protocol that uses both digital and conventional methods not only reduce the time but can increase the accuracy (in esthetic, functional and fitting aspect) of the final restoration. Aim: The aim of the current case report is to propose an approach for digitally driven implant treatment planning. As this case is just one of many treatment options, the main goal of the report is to extend the conventional treatment approach and to be an initial point in development of innovative ones. Case report:A full mouth restoration was done by means of both digital and conventional techniques for planning and denture fabrication. Conclusion: The digital approach in implant restorations planning allows a surgical guide fabrication that integrates all the data planned (for the final restoration and the implant position). By this way the planning stage becomes essential as it allows all the possible treatment plans to be evaluated and the best one to be chosen before actions were taken. At the same time, the data should be collected precisely and carefully studied for any error accumulation.
Keywords: prosthetic dentistry, digital approach, conventional approach, implant prosthetics, hybrid approach
Edition: Volume 12 Issue 2, February 2023,
Pages: 720 - 723