Overdenture Overdenture

a complete or partial removable denture supported by retained roots that is intended to provide improved support, stability, and tactile and proprioceptive sensation and to reduce ridge resorption.

(Mosby. Mosby's Dental Dictionary. Elsevier, 2004.).

AdvantagesAdvantages

• Preserve alveolar ridge

• Possibly-support-proprioreception-retention (eventually)-stress distribution

DisadvantagesDisadvantages

• Poor oral hygiene

-caries and periodontal disease• Soft tissue undercuts

-esthetics-retention

• Breakage of denture-thin-stress concentration over

abutments

Selection of abutment teethSelection of abutment teeth

• One per quadrant

• Not adjacent teeth

• Usually mandibular cuspids and premolars

• Maxillary cuspids frequently cause esthetic and retention problems due to soft tissue undercuts

OverdenturesOverdentures

• Regard as transitional

- need perfect oral hygiene-daily non acidulated topical

fluoride (sodium fluoride)

• Probably better to place 2 implants