2019 Volume 11 Issue 3 Pages 233-238
Reading the debate on the selection between fix and removable implant superstructure for maxillary edentulous patients, I could clearly understand key points for the selecting options. Also I could draw common points from both papers as follows.
• It is quite important to understand the patient expectations and experience of prostheses as well as the degree of satisfaction for them.
• What and how patients place significances among influencing factors on satisfaction are quite different among cases.
• It is indispensable to make patients to understand the shortcomings and limitations for each treatment options, however it is not easy.
• In making treatment plan, so-called the concept of top down treatment is necessary, and the basis for that should be complete denture fabrication.
This debate provided a good chance to reconfirm the advantages of secondly splinting concepts which allow us to utilize merits of fixed and removable options and to cope with longitudinal changes.
