2022 Volume 14 Issue 4 Pages 403-406
Patient: The patient was a 62-year-old man. His chief complaints were tooth mobility and disturbance of mastication, as well as bleeding from the gums. He had never been to a dentist before, owing to his dentophobia. Examination revealed that almost all his remaining teeth showed significant tooth mobility. At this time, immediate dentures were temporarily used as treatment dentures, and then definitive prostheses were fabricated.
Discussion: Irreversible treatment was not given at the first visit, and instead his fears were alleviated by providing careful explanations and starting with procedures with lower psychological burden. As a result, the patient quality of life has been significantly improved by the definitive prostheses.
Conclusion: As a preliminary step to prosthetic treatment, careful consultation with the patient was performed to alleviate his fears. Then, the appropriate definitive prostheses were applied, which contributed to mitigation of esthetic dissatisfaction and masticatory disturbance.
