Makeovers are ageless.
"Older patients" are often treated with indifference when it comes to how they look. The result may often be a patient not receiving the care that his or her goals would dictate. In the featured case, the patient had received dental hygiene care in a dental office for years. The fact that the patient's daughter had to take the initiative to seek care for a very motivated patient indicates a lack of understanding and communication in the patient's original dental office. The treatment plan that met the patient's goals was presented and accepted. It involved a full-mouth reconstruction, eliminating partial dentures, opening a deep bite, treating a diastema with orthodontics, and constructing a new smile. This makeover lent itself to the current trend of improving a smile, but it accomplished much more. The patient now has a firm foundation for better chewing, but perhaps more importantly, the patient, through CAMBRA, has the knowledge to control the disease process that caused the breakdown of her original dentition.
Whitehouse
Joseph
J
World Congress of Minimally Invasive Dentistry. cvdental@aol.com
D000368:Aged; D003442:Crowns; D017267:Dental Prosthesis Design; D003829:Denture, Partial; D003970:Diastema / Q000628:therapy; D004955:Esthetics, Dental; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007576:Jaw, Edentulous, Partially / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008334:Mandible; D008437:Maxilla; D024343:Open Bite / Q000628:therapy*; D009971:Orthodontics, Corrective / Q000379:methods; D010347:Patient Care Planning