[Dental rehabilitation of using telescope-based preventive, removable prosthesis system].
OBJECTIVE
This paper aimed at introducing an improved konuskrone telescope system with the advantages of both the fixed denture and the removable, partial dentures for clinical application in restoring the missing teeth.


METHODS
The konuskrone telescope system was modified and named as the Preventive, Removable Prosthesis (PRP) system in which the inner crown was fixed on the abutment teeth, and the outer crown with bridge, rest and connector together as a whole was formed a removable unit.


RESULTS
The clinical case reports indicated that the PRP system saved at least 50% cut-out of the abutment teeth,and helped the patients improve their oral hygiene,cure and rehabilitation.


CONCLUSIONS
The PRP system with the good appraisal of the fixed denture and the removable, partial denture and without the shortcomings of both dentures provides an option for rehabilitation of the missing teeth.
Lin
Hung-wu
HW
Kyushu Dental College, Division of Occlusion and Maxillofacial Reconstruction, Department of Oral Functional Reconstruction, Science of Oral Function, 803-8580 Fukuoka, Japan. hungwulin@hotmail.com
Yang
Tsung-han
TH
Wu
Wen-yuen
WY
Masumi
Shin-ichi
S
D003442:Crowns; D000044:Dental Abutments; D003832:Denture, Partial, Removable; D006801:Humans