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Treating Xerostomia Patients
BB: To recap, if a patient is partially edentulous, could you
possibly place a couple of implants and put them in a bridge,
and that way get them out of the partial?
CT: You could do a fixed partial prosthesis in the
posterior area, and that patient would have neither caries
involvement, nor would there be any problem with the
mucosal involvement.
BB: And then with the fully edentulous patients, as you
mentioned, it could be an overdenture or a bar-supported
prosthesis off the tissue, right? Or, even better, it might be
heading into a screw-retained denture or a fixed type of
prosthesis where you’re actually up off the tissue.
A screw-retained denture to replace a removable denture (palatal view)
CT: That would be ideal, a fixed prosthesis — the old standard
Brånemark hybrid is the most successful restoration
in the history of dentistry, and that’s something that works
really well with the lack of saliva flow. IM
Bilateral posterior implant-borne bridges to replace a partial denture
(occlusal view)
The old standard Brånemark hybrid is the most successful
restoration in the history of dentistry, and that’s something
that works really well with the lack of saliva flow.
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