Professor Forna Norina Consuela

MANAGEMENT OF COMPLEX ORAL REHABILITATION OF PATIENTS FROM THE BALKAN AREA

Norina FORNA¹, Ana MINOSKA ²

1 Univ.Prof., Head of Implantology Department, Faculty of Dental Medicine, UMF ”Grigore T.Popa”, Iași, member of AOSR (Romanian Scientists Academy)
2 Univ.Prof, Department of Periodontology, School of Dentistry, Cyril and Methodius University (North Macedonia), President of Dental Association Eternitas

Complex oral rehabilitation of patients in Balkan Area need to adapt to the specific features of edentation and oral health behavior. To overpass the limit of the traditional diagnostic methods and treatment, digital applications are recommended to assess the clinical and biological indices of the prosthetic field, to project the future positioning of the dental implants and their relation to anatomic elements of the prosthetic field as well as the design of the future implant-supported prosthetic restoration. Also, surgical guides planned and manufactured by CAD-CAM technique support increased accuracy of the positioning of the dental implants. Analysis of the soft and hard prosthetic support, planning of proimplant and implant stages in relation to the design of the implant-supported prosthetic fixed/removable restoration can be performed by digital applications such as Implant 3D (Univers, SUA), NobleGuide (Nobel Biocare, SUA), Digital Smile Design (DSD), SimPlant (Materialize Dental), Virtual Implant Placement (BioHorizons, Anglia), ImplantMaster (iDent, SUA), Implant 3D (Media Lab, Italia), EasyGuide (Keystone Dental). The blending of the traditional and digital diagnostic and treatment techniques will increase the survival and the prosthetic success rate of the implant-supported prosthetic reconstructions in partial extended and total edentulousness for patients candidates to implants.

Key words: complex oral rehabilitation, edentulousness, dental implants, prosthetic reconstruction

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