Prosthodontics
Department
Prosthodontics
Out of many causative factors, the common causes of tooth loss have been severe tooth cavities, gum diseases, and trauma from external forces. However, if the loss of teeth remained untreated, the oral environment could be adapted and changed, followed by difficulties in chewing function and lowering the active social life by altered facial appearance or speech problem.
Oral environment tends to be easily adapted and changed toward the worse way. The remained adjacent teeth tend and try to fill the gap by drifting itself, which in turns, causing unharmonized biting plane.
Prosthodontic department corrects and solves those listed problems above and reconstructs those altered oral function by treating with various types of prosthetics; dental implant placement, fixed partial prosthetics (crowns and bridges), and removable prosthetics (partial or complete denture).
Plus, prosthodontics department also elevate the patient's quality of life by improving their smile, so the patient embark on new happy life.
Fields of dental treatment
- 1. General prosthetic treatment (fixed denture prosthetics, partial denture prosthetics, complete denture
prosthodontics)
A traditional prosthetic treatment that covers weakened teeth due to excessive tooth decay or endodontic treatment, and restores lost teeth - 2. Aesthetic prosthetic treatment
A treatment to improve aesthetic aspects such as discoloration on teeth mainly the anterior tooth, abnormality of shape, wide gap between teeth - 3. Maxillofacial prosthetic treatment
A therapeutic area for improving functions and aesthetic aspects in cases that there is excessive deletion in oral areas (plate), laryngopharyngeal areas, and facial areas due to inherent causes, or acquired causes such as the occurrence of oral cancer or external damage - 4. Implant prosthetic treatment
The traditional method of restoring lost teeth is to delete healthy teeth on both sides of the missing tooth or make a denture, and it means the treatment area that implants artificial dental root in the space where the tooth is lost and then made and then implants a tooth on the area