33^rd Euro Dentistry Congress

Prosthetic Dentistry

Prosthodontics, also identified as dental prosthetics or prosthetic dentistry, is the area of dentistry that focuses on dental prostheses. The ADA outlines it as "the dental specialty pertaining to the analysis, treatment planning, rehabilitation and maintenance of the oral function, comfort, appearance and health of patients with clinical conditions associated with missing or deficient teeth or oral and maxillofacial tissues using biocompatible substitutes." Prosthodontic treatment is not one single treatment during the life-time of the patient. It is extension of numerous different kinds of restorative and prosthodontics dental treatments. The dynamic treatment tactic is an approach that initiates with the least magnitude of damage to the remaining teeth but provides definitive tooth replacing restorations for the patients

Prosthodontics is the replacement of misplaced parts of teeth, bone, gums, or facial structures. Most wide-ranging dentists implement some prosthodontic procedures, but a prosthodontist specializes in prosthodontics, having completed 3 or more years of postdoctoral education in one or more phases of this specialty. There are three phases of prosthodontics:

Fixed prosthodontics (crowns and bridges) cemented onto teeth or implants in the mouth

Removable prosthodontics (complete or partial dentures that are removable from the mouth by the patient

Maxillofacial prosthetics (a less-known part of dentistry in which noses, eyes, other parts of the face, and other body parts are replaced with prostheses