The development of technologies and materials in dentistry and their application have created many new opportunities for improving dental aesthetics, with the use of techniques with no or minimal rigid dental tissue utilization, as part of the quest to achieve beautiful and proportionate good-looking, functionally effective teeth for life.
Locators are specific implant superstructures that allow effective retention of removable prosthetic structures. Certainly, there are also requirements for the placement of implants. Most commonly they are applicable to the lower jaw in the anterior stretch by placing at least two, and most preferably four, implants that are mutually parallel and symmetrical. An advantage of locally retained prosthetic structures is their easy maintenance from a hygienic point of view, especially from elderly patients.
This report will present a clinical case of contemporary dental treatment for severe atrophy of the jawbone. Implant placement is possible only in the area of the chin of the lower jaw where there is still preserved bone of sufficient height. The treatment plan includes placing 4 implants on the lower jaw together with extraction of the minor residual dentition and production, after 4 months, of a removable denture with locator-type locking elements and new complete upper jaw dentures. The dentures are made of thermoplastic VERTEX ThermoSens.
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