[A case of oral rehabilitation]

The success of the treatment of patients suffering from severe chronic periodontitis urges a tight complicity between dentist and patient. This article underlines the importance and the sequence of the treatment: medical anamnesis, initial periodontal examination, motivation of the patient for better oral hygiene, initial non-surgical treatment, follow-up of the healing, pre-prosthetic surgery, provisory and definitive prosthetic treatment, maintenance. It shows the results, 3 years after the treatment of a female patient, suffering from periodontitis in a terminal stage.