Overdenture on CEKA attachments-agood prosthetic option

Abstract

A dental successful restoration aims for two main goals: the aesthetics, stability, and maintenance of the prosthesis, in other words, the satisfaction of patients for a long time. The degree of satisfaction of patients wearing overdentures is high, especially since the prostheses properly maintain their stability and retention for a much longer time than conventional total dentures. The functional characteristics of the overdentures are validated even more in the situation when the dental abutments kept under the prosthesis are provided with special means of fixation, retention and stabilization. The technique of over prosthesis on root abutments is an approach that addresses patients with too few remaining teeth and reserved periodontal prognosis with the advantage of postponing for a long time the installation of total edentulous condition and in addition reduces the atrophy advance. This paper presents the whole process for manufactured an overdenture on CEKA attachments, and describes the technical steps for a real case with a subtotal mandibular edentation and two extruded canines, which had circular caries of the package. They were prepared for the crown-root devices. The classic method was used in making overprosthesis on staples.