Full Mouth Rehabilitation
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Full mouth dental rehabilitation or full mouth reconstruction , is a comprehensive dental treatment plan designed to restore the health, function, and aesthetics of the entire mouth, often involving multiple procedures to address issues like tooth loss, damage, severe dental wear and bite problems.
Full mouth rehabilitation, also known as full mouth restoration or full mouth reconstruction, is a specialized and customized treatment plan that involves a combination of restorative, cosmetic and reconstructive dental procedures.
Full mouth rehabilitation is designed to address multiple dental issues of patients such as tooth loss, tooth decay, gum disease, bite problems and damaged or worn teeth.
With ongoing changes in day to day lifestyle and dietary habits, there are a lot of resultant effects you experience in your mouth. There is excessive wear and tear of the surfaces of teeth by grinding or overbite issues. There are certain more factors like poor oral hygiene leading to loose teeth and ultimately losing them.
Due to continuous wear and tear over the years, your bite collapses leading to decreased jaw size and the face starts looking aged. The collapsed bite and the functional integrity of the worn out teeth along with their aesthetics can be reestablished by
• Proper measurement of the facial proportions
• Measurements of jaw relations
• Establishment of renewed vertical height of the jaws and the face
• Delivering the crowns / implants / fixed dentures at the new established vertical height
If we leave the spaces with missing teeth, other teeth begin to shift when there are no adjacent supporting teeth and the opposing teeth will grow and supraerupt in the available vacant space of the opposite jaw. This will lead to the following sequential problems viz…s
• Malalignment of all the teeth
• Food lodgement in the catch areas of these malaligned teeth
• Cavities and gum problems
• TMJ issues
• Problem in chewing
• Gastrointestinal issues due to swallowing of unchewed food
• Compromised aesthetics
• Finally leading to a bite collapse and loss of vertical height of the face and jaws
As a result the person will look aged with thinner lips and a lopsided smile.
Full mouth rehabilitation offers significant improvements in oral health by addressing the underlying dental issues that contribute to poor function and aesthetics. By restoring missing teeth with dental implants or prostheses, patients can avoid complications such as tooth drift, which can lead to further occlusal problems. Additionally, improved occlusal contact and the restoration of the vertical dimension of occlusion can alleviate stress on the temporomandibular joint (TMJ), reducing pain and discomfort. Ultimately, these enhancements lead to a healthier mouth, preventing the progression of dental issues and promoting a better quality of life.
