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Case Reports
. 2019 Aug 28:2019:4648959.
doi: 10.1155/2019/4648959. eCollection 2019.

Mandibular Full-Arch Rehabilitation over 3 Straight Immediately Loaded Implants: 8 Years of Follow-Up

Márcio de Carvalho Formiga  1 , Magda Nagasawa  1 , Jamil Awad Shibli  1
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Mandibular Full-Arch Rehabilitation over 3 Straight Immediately Loaded Implants: 8 Years of Follow-Up

Márcio de Carvalho Formiga et al. Case Rep Dent. .

Abstract

Mandibular full-arch restoration is a good and successful treatment option for totally edentulous patients. In the past years, several studies have described the placement of 4 to 6 implants to restore this type of case; however, an option using 3 dental implants placed in strategic and specific positions could also be an alternative. Therefore, this case report describes a full-arch rehabilitation on 3 straight, immediately loaded implants after 8 years of follow-up. The restoration presented no biological or technical complications during this follow-up period, showing that an adequate treatment plan was able to allow good results using this treatment option.

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The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest regarding the publication of this paper.

Figures

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Figure 1
Clinical aspect of the removable complete dentures: note the absence of occlusal contact and marginal adaptation to the jaws.
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Figure 2
Preoperative intraoral clinical view.
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Figure 3
Preoperative panoramic radiograph.
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Figure 4
Intraoperative intraoral view of the surgical guide showing parallelism pins.
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Figure 5
Intraoperative intraoral view of the 3 implants inserted in the jaw.
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Figure 6
Intraoperative intraoral view of the surgical guide showing good positioning of the 3 implants.
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Figure 7
Intraoral view of the bar proof with occlusion vertical dimension wax block registration.
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Figure 8
Intraoral view of the wax mounted teeth try-in.
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Figure 9
Clinical aspects of the new maxillary denture and mandibular fixed prosthetic restoration on 3 implants on the delivery day.
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Figure 10
Extraoral view of the patient with the new oral rehabilitation.
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Figure 11
One-year postoperative follow-up panoramic radiograph.
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Figure 12
Eight-year follow-up panoramic radiograph: note that there is no bone loss around the implants.
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