Implant treatment as a multidisciplinary therapy

Abstract

Prosthetic-driven implant therapy is a concept based on the number of implants used, selections of implant position and surgical modalities, and so on, for functional and esthetic outcomes harmonized with stomatognathic system. This multidisciplinary concept requires the aggregation of preoperative treatment, surgery, designing of prosthesis and postoperative maintenance at a very high level. Multidisciplinary treatment in the field of medicine is performed by the aggregated doctors from many disciplines but in dentistry it is often done by one dentist. In the present manuscript, we would like to summarize the concept of multidiscipline for the successful prosthetic-driven implant therapy.