Treatment Planning in Restorative Dentistry and Implant Prosthodontics

Treatment Planning in Restorative Dentistry and Implant Prosthodontics

Antonio H. C. Rodrigues

Treatment planning is commonly considered one of the most important phases of any dental treatment and vital for achieving successful long-term results.
However, most dental schools do not offer courses exclusively designed for comprehensive planning, and comprehensive planning is rarely discussed at scientific meetings because it is considered a basic topic that practitioners should already understand.
This knowledge gap leaves practicing clinicians with few options beyond using their own intuition to solve problems, which is highly unpredictable.
Therefore, this book presents clinical guidelines for planning treatments in restorative dentistry and outlines a clear, objective, and simple thinking process that can be easily applied in daily practice, essentially providing the reader with a roadmap to be used as a reference from the very initial procedures until final restorative treatment.
Part 1 describes how to identify existing problems by gathering, organizing, and analyzing information obtained during clinical examination.

Contents

1. Rationale for Developing a Philosophy of Total Care
2. Gathering and Organizing Clinical Data: Initial Consultation
3. Gathering and Organizing Clinical Data: Clinical Examination
4. Extraoral Examination
5. Intraoral Examination: Soft Tissues
6. Intraoral Examination: Hard Tissues
7. Intraoral Examination: Edentulous Areas
8. Intraoral Examination: Specialty Considerations
9. Interpreting the Collected Data, Determining the Diagnosis and Prognosis, and Establishing Treatment Objectives
10. Restorative Treatment
11. Conventional Restorative Dentistry
12. Implant-Supported Restorations
13. Treatment Plan Development
14. Preparing the Patient to Make an Informed Decision