Full mouth restoration on dental implants utilizing titanium laser-welded frameworks.
In today's dental literature, most frequently, esthetics are addressed with fixed restorations. This article will illustrate the opportunity to provide our patients with very good esthetic outcomes with a hopeless dentition utilizing dental implants, laser-welded titanium components, and characterized acrylic resin prostheses. The definitive prostheses provide excellent facial support, phonetics, esthetics, smile line, and function. The steps in such a treatment will be presented from the clinical to dental laboratory procedures.


CONCLUSIONS
Incorporating newer technology into our patient treatment plans, which increasingly includes dental implants, may allow more time-efficient, esthetic, predictable, and reliable treatment. Laser-welded titanium frameworks offer many advantages for the patient, clinician, and dental technician, which are illustrated.
Schneider
Robert
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University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Hospital Dentistry Institute, Division of Maxillofacial Prosthodontics, Iowa City, IA 52242-1049, USA. robert-schneider@uiowa.edu
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