Full mouth rehabilitation—combination of implant and tooth-supported fixed prostheses

In the presence of anatomical limitations, selecting a treatment approach between the placement of implants with preprosthetic surgery and use of natural dentition with implants requires careful consideration and understanding of the biology of the implant system and natural teeth.

Identify the potential complications involving the combination implant-to-tooth fixed partial denture.

Clinical Cases in Prosthodontics, Leila Jahangiri, Marjan Moghadam, Mijin Choi, and Michael Ferguson, © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Medical History

No contributory finding noted

Dental History

Conformative dental treatments over the years

Clinical Findings/Problem List

Generalized wear patterns (attrition and abrasion)

15 mm loss of vertical dimension of occlusion

Overcontoured restorations

Generalized moderate to severe plaque and calculus accumulation

Bleeding upon probing

Generalized grade 2+ clinical mobility except the maxillary right quadrant

I nadequate posterior support

Absence of anterior guidance

Occlusal plane discrepancy

Radiographic Findings

Caries

Moderate to severe bone loss

Furcation involvement

Widened PDL

Defective restorations (open margins and overcontoured restorations)

Diagnosis

Defective existing restorations and prostheses

Caries

Loss of vertical dimension of occlusion

Generalized moderate to severe adult periodontitis

Partial edentulism

Parafunctional habit

Pseudo-class III malocclusion

Clinical Decision-Making Determining Factors

Biomechanical characteristics of a natural tooth (Cohen and Orenstein 1994) include its ability to exhibit and tolerate minor movement of 50200 |xm. This is as a result of the presence of periodontal ligaments and their viscoelastic properties.

Osseointegrated implants (Ericsson, Glantz et al. 1988) show approximately 10 |m of mobility that results from the flexure and elastic deformation of surrounding bone when subjected to forces.

When implants are rigidly connected to natural tooth/teeth, there is an observed greater bone loss around the implant. This suggests that implant overload and bone loss may result from the natural tooth acting as a cantilever (Skalak 1983; Ericsson, Lekholm et al. 1986; Sullivan 1986). Use of nonrigid connectors in the implant-teeth fixed partial denture system has also shown to be unfavorable and places stress on the implant system and prosthesis (Lin, Chang et al. 2006). Although there is a lack of consensus on this issue, current clinical evidence i/>