Prosthetic rehabilitation of siblings with oligodontia and metal allergy

Prosthetic rehabilitation of siblings with oligodontia and metal allergy

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Oligodontia Applique Tools is a complex congenital deformity, as it includes the lack of permanent teeth, functional and psychosocial problems.The management of this deformity requires a multidisciplinary approach, that involves the work of an orthodontist, gnatologist, and a prosthetic specialist.In the following casereport the comprehensive treatment of the three siblings are presented having oligodontia and the oldest sister in addition has dental metal allergy as well.

In all cases we used fixed dental prosthesis for the rehabilitation.In the treatment plan: facebow, arrow tracing, diagnostic wax-up, mock-up was used for the individual treatment, moreover, to treat the consecutive bite loss, bite elevation was necessary.As the oldest sister has metal allergy, in the treatment plan we used Medical titanium framework.

With the final restoration the functional, aesthetic, and psychosocial problems were solved, and the patients were satisfied with their new prosthetic appliances.