Treatment planning for mouth rehabilitation
| Autor: | J. Raymond Gill |
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| Rok vydání: | 1952 |
| Předmět: |
Dental practice
Rehabilitation business.industry Mouth Rehabilitation media_common.quotation_subject medicine.medical_treatment Dentistry Dental education medicine.disease stomatognathic diseases stomatognathic system Treatment plan medicine Medical emergency Oral Surgery business Radiation treatment planning Restorative dentistry Function (engineering) media_common |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry. 2:230-245 |
| ISSN: | 0022-3913 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0022-3913(52)90050-4 |
| Popis: | Treatment planning does not receive adequate attention either in dental education or in dental practice. This may be due to the fact that a comprehensive treatment plan has not been considered essential. The average dentist approaches the patient with the idea that his economic status is such that he cannot afford rehabilitation of the mouth. Often the dentist does not look at restorative dentistry as a preventive measure. This is obvious when we see a great number of mouths from which teeth have been extracted and in which no immediate replacement has been made. If immediate replacements were made, many of the unfortunate conditions we observe would not have developed. The dentist is not fulfilling his obligation to the public when he does not properly advise his patients and educate them to proper health services. It must be remembered that each tooth must function both as an individual and as a part of a collective unit; this makes each tooth an important factor in the function of the entire mouth. When the function of one tooth is lost, the function of the other teeth is impaired. When we have impaired function, we lose the support of bone structure around the teeth because of the lack of physiologic function which stimulates the soft and hard tissues. Therefore, it is important that every effort be made to rehabilitate any lost tooth in order to prevent any further destructive changes from taking place. If the dental profession would take time to educate the patient in the preventive phase of dentistry and make an adequate treatment plan, we would see fewer dental cripples. |
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