Full Mouth Rehabilitation
Rebuilding Your Smile From the Ground Up
A full mouth rehabilitation combining these five disciplines is a highly synchronized, multi-phase treatment plan that rebuilds your entire bite from the foundation up. Each specialty plays a specific role to ensure your new smile is healthy, structurally sound, properly aligned, and durable. Here is how these five components integrate to rebuild your mouth:
1. Periodontics
Periodontal therapy treats the gums and bone supporting your teeth to ensure a disease-free foundation.
- Disease control: Clears up gum disease through deep cleanings (scaling and root planing).
- Tissue leveling: Corrects uneven gum lines or covers exposed roots to prepare teeth for crowns.
- Bone grafting: Rebuilds lost jawbone to securely support future dental implants.
2. Orthodontics
Orthodontics moves misaligned teeth into their ideal positions to create the proper spacing and bite relationship.
- Bite correction: Corrects severe crowding, spacing, or deep bites so teeth meet evenly.
- Space creation: Opens up precise spaces where missing teeth will be replaced by implants.
- Root positioning: Straightens tilted roots to ensure they can properly handle chewing forces.
3. Biomechanical Considerations
Biomechanical planning analyzes how chewing forces affect individual teeth and the entire jaw system.
- Force distribution: Designs the bite so no single tooth takes destructive, heavy pressure.
- Structural assessment: Evaluates whether remaining tooth structures are strong enough to support a crown.
- Material selection: Chooses materials (like zirconia or porcelain fused to metal) based on their ability to resist cracking or wearing down opposing teeth.
4. Restorative Dentistry
Restorative dentistry repairs active damage and prepares individual teeth for their final shapes.
- Decay removal: Cleans out all active cavities and replaces old, failing fillings.
- Core buildups: Uses strong composite materials to rebuild badly broken-down teeth so they can hold a crown.
- Root canal therapy: Saves infected teeth that are critical to the overall reconstruction plan.
5. Prosthodontics
Prosthodontics focuses on the final fabrication and placement of permanent artificial teeth.
- Bite finalization: Establishes the new, optimal height and relationship of the upper and lower jaws.
- Custom restorations: Places the final crowns, porcelain veneers, or implant-supported bridges.
- Aesthetics and function: Blends cosmetic design with chewing mechanics for a natural-looking, long-lasting result.
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