Oral rehabilitation is the specialty responsible for restoring aesthetic function and oral harmony through dental prostheses. This specialty comprehensively combines the areas of fixed prosthetics, removable prosthetics, surgery, occlusion and dental implants, carrying out the diagnosis and treatment plan appropriate to the patient who needs to recover their oral health.
This is the specialty that restores the health of partially edentulous and totally edentulous patients. It also treats alterations of the temporomandibular joint. It handles cases in an integrated manner with other specialties to offer the appropriate treatment to highly complex patients.
The main associated pathologies are:
- Partial edentulism
- Total edentulism
- Temporomandibular disorders
- Dental caries
- Periodontal disease with missing teeth