What Is Full Mouth Rehabilitation?
Full mouth rehabilitation is a comprehensive procedure for restoring the health, function, and beauty of your smile. This custom approach may include solutions like dental implants to replace missing teeth, tailored specifically to the current state of your mouth.
Common Reasons for
Full Mouth Rehabilitation
Full-mouth rehabilitation helps people with widespread damage to their mouth. Here are some of the more common reasons why people might want this procedure.
Mismatched Restorations
If you’ve had a lifetime of dental problems, you might have a mouth full of prosthetics that aren’t working well together. In some cases, replacing mismatched prosthetics with dental implants can provide a more cohesive and functional solution. Our prosthodontists can design a comprehensive plan for replacing all your restorations, including using dental implants to ensure your new restorations look and work great together.
Dental Trauma
Falls, car accidents, sporting accidents, and violence are all common causes of extensive dental trauma. No matter how badly your teeth and jaw might be damaged, full mouth rehabilitation can restore a beautiful, healthy, and functional mouth.
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Gum Disease
Gum disease is the most common cause of tooth loss among American adults. In addition to tooth loss, gum disease can lead to bone loss, often necessitating the replacement of missing teeth. Dental implants are a key part of full-mouth rehabilitation for patients who have lost teeth due to gum disease, as they help replace missing teeth while maintaining jawbone integrity. In these cases, full-mouth rehabilitation often involves collaboration between prosthodontists and periodontists.
Oral Cancer
Cancer can be highly destructive, and sometimes the treatment has to be equally so. Treatments like surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy can lead to a loss of teeth and bone. Dental implants can play a vital role in replacing missing teeth after cancer treatment, helping restore both function and aesthetics. Full-mouth rehabilitation, including the use of dental implants, can give you back your functional bite and attractive smile after cancer treatment.
Birth or Developmental Defects
Defects from birth or during childhood may require extensive rehabilitation to allow an individual to achieve a healthy and functional bite and an attractive smile. Full mouth rehabilitation can also help with speech, swallowing, and other functions. Our specialists can provide maxillofacial prosthetics in the oral cavity and beyond.
How Can We Help You?
How Can We
Help You?
Your Full Mouth Rehabilitation Consultation
Since every full mouth rehabilitation is custom-designed for a patient, it must start with a detailed consultation to help us plan your procedure.
For the first step in the consultation, your dentist may want to listen to your description of your current condition and what you hope to achieve. It’s important to be honest. If you’re looking for a simple, functional restoration, say so, but if having a beautiful smile is equally important, let us know. Often, it’s easy to achieve both functional and aesthetic goals together. It’s also important to let us know how you feel now and how you want to feel. Your emotional outcome matters as much to us as the functional and cosmetic ones.
Before your appointment, your dentist will review documentation, x-rays, and other imaging sent by your general dentist or referring physician. They may ask you some questions about the documentation and imaging they reviewed. Next, they will perform an exam. If they don’t have enough information, they might request additional imagery or try to schedule a consultation with your general dentist or physician.
They will discuss treatment options with you if they have enough information. Often, there are multiple approaches to achieving your desired goals. Your dentist will explain the options, including their advantages and disadvantages. They may recommend one particular option, but deciding if, how, and when to proceed is always yours.
Full Mouth Rehabilitation Is a Team Effort
Often, full mouth rehabilitation depends on the work of multiple dentists and doctors. At South Bay Prosthodontics, we have extensive experience working as part of a reconstructive dentistry team. We are prepared to lead your full mouth rehabilitation and can put together a top-notch team. We can assemble the team or simply refer you to specialists you might want on your team.
We also know how to participate in a team led by another dentist or physician. We know how to follow your team’s leader, providing our prosthodontic expertise as they direct. We’ll make sure you get the best results from your prosthetics.
Get Full Mouth Rehabilitation in Torrance, CA
Have you experienced significant damage or developmental defects to your teeth, bones, and other orofacial structures? We can help you achieve a healthy, functional, and attractive rehabilitation.
Please call (310) 378-9261 or use our online form to request an appointment at South Bay Prosthodontics in Torrance, CA.
