A case of occlusal rehabilitation with application of implant overdenture

Abstract

This report is to explain the use of implant overdenture (IOD), which resulted in successful prevention of combination syndrome including flabby gum. Recently, clinical use of IOD for stabilization of complete denture or free-end partial saddled dentures are frequently reported. However, IOD, a remedy for improving quality of life of edentulous patients, has only few long-term observation reports, so its clinical outcomes are not well-known yet. This report of ours it about the case of a patient with the maxillary complete denture and the mandibular free-end saddled denture adjusted to three remaining teeth. For the treatment, 4 implants were placed with support of magnetic attachment for mandibular dentureʼs stability. The patient also has flabby gum symptoms at maxillary anterior region. We utilized IOD for minimization the depression of the mandibular partial denture and for rectification of stabbing of mandibular anterior teeth to the maxillary anterior gum. As the result, five years and seven months of avoidance of combination syndrome was achieved.