Full Mouth Rehabilitation

A special consideration is needed for patient requiring extensive restorations for crooked teeth which is often neglected and overlooked by the dentists due to lack of specialized training. Full mouth rehabilitation provides the ultimate goal of optimum oral health to the individual and seeks to convert all unfavourable forces to the favourable ones and permit normal function, thus inducing healthy oral condition. Thus, it entails the performance of all the procedures necessary to produce a healthy, aesthetic, well-functioning, self-maintaining masticatory function. The dentist must give the specific treatment as required by the patient in full mouth rehabilitation cases like full coverage of teeth, multiple crowns, splinting of the teeth, positioning the crowns lingually or labially as required to modify the arch form, etc. Restoration of the impaired occlusion, enhancement of the aesthetics, preservation of the remaining teeth as much as possible and maintenance of a healthy periodontium. Treatment plan must result in healthy maintainability of the teeth and their respective supporting structures in harmony with the muscles, bones, joints and ligaments of the mouth and jaws.