title: The importance of the operating sequence: a multidisciplinary treatment approach.
abstract: Dental professionals will, from time to time, be presented with a patient who requires substantial treatment to correct trauma, caries damage, or severely compromised teeth. Such cases often require a multidisciplinary approach, which may include emergency endodontic, or periodontal pretreatment to obtain a morphological, functional, and aesthetic rehabilitation, while maintaining the residual dental and periodontal structures. This article will discuss a process to correctly develop the most appropriate treatment plan and how best to sequence treatment in cases requiring a multidisciplinary approach.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This article will demonstrate how the formulation of a correct multidisciplinary treatment plan can provide the basis for predictable clinical success. Upon reading this article, the reader should: 1) Understand the importance of and learn how to determine the sequence for a multidisciplinary treatment plan. 2) Become familiar with the value of a correct dental-periodontal relationship.
authors.affiliation: pala@aleph.it
authors.forename: Michele
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Palazzo
authors.forename: Lorenzo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Massai
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002985:Clinical Protocols; D016556:Crown Lengthening; D003442:Crowns; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000628:therapy*; D003793:Dental Restoration, Permanent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D050793:Orthodontic Extrusion; D010348:Patient Care Team; D012390:Root Canal Therapy; D014082:Tooth Fractures / Q000628:therapy*