Mutilated Dentition in an Aging Population: The First Steps for Successful Treatment Planning

Patients presenting with mutilated dentition are more frequently seeking orthodontic treatment. What can you offer these patients? This lecture is clinically oriented and presents multiple cases where missing teeth caused an aesthetic and/or functional problem while complicating the treatment due to a significant lack of orthodontic anchorage. Solutions outlining how to resolve these difficult anchorage situations will be presented as well as some tips and tricks in order to help optimize treatment planning and outcomes. Enter this new world of Mutilated Dentition Orthodontic Treatment with confidence but be ready to think outside the box.

Learning Objectives:

• Analyze, visualize and optimize your “Mutilated Dentition” patient’s treatment plans in order to achieve better treatment outcome.
• Correct severe vertical dimension collapse in mutilated dentition cases.
• Improve the periodontal environment during orthodontic treatment.