[Parodonto-prophylactic restoration of occluding stops by dental bridges]

The authors have studied data from the specialized literature and evaluated their personal experience for identifying the positive and the negative aspects of current methods for the restoration of occluding stops. The study has evidenced that the method employing a median articulatory device and the galvanic model of the antagonist teeth can be used for the biological integration at a higher level of efficiency of dental bridges which are intended to restore occluding stops. Superior functional parameters are achieved. Clinical observations, kinesiographic recordings and final occluding evaluations have been used. However, these methods are applied only in clinical cases that have been correctly investigated, and on condition that the restorative technique is followed fully. This method, with all its advantages when compared to the morphostatic method with distal key of occlusion, or with occluding device presumes the availability of very good clinical and technical conditions. By the nature of his preoccupations, the praxiological and gnathological essence of the practitioner is to achieve conservation and to restore occluding stops by various methods. One of the consequences of these approaches is to achieve prophylactic methods, that will not disturb the parodontial balance. The study presented here was aimed at this. Stomatologists should have a sound knowledge of occluding physiology, and this for two major considerations: they can prevent, when well informed, the development of the complex pathology due to occluding dysfunction, and they can apply functional restorative therapies to patients that are occlusally traumatized, restoring the occluding balance.