Overdentures

1.      When complete dentures lack the retention and the stability necessary for a comfortable wear, the attachment implant overdenture is prescribed. Restoring the edentulous patient with implants presents numerous challenges to the clinician. These challenges can vary from simple functional and esthetics problems to more complicated ones. Organized treatment plan is necessary to overcome these problems and the final product will be predictable and satisfactory from a patient and a doctor point view. This course will discuss diagnosis, treatment planning and complications of implant overdentures. A variety of treatment options and prosthesis designs will be described. Many clinical situations will be presented with a step-by-step simplified approach to provide final prostheses that meet patients’ expectations from esthetic and functional perspectives.

 

2.      The presentation will answer these following questions: 1. What are the differences between conventional dentures and implant overdentures. 2. What is the magic number of implants required for a stable and retentive denture? 3. Should these implants be interconnected or independent? 4. What are the popular attachments used in these situations? 5. How do we sequence the implant overdenture treatment plan for an optimum outcome? 6. How do we maintain these implant overdentures? 7. What type of complications we might encounter?