Prosthetic rehabilitation of complete edentulous patients with morphological changes induced by age and old ill...

Extremely old, complete edentulous patients are very difficult to treat both because of their anatomical and psychological condition. Treatment challenges are increasing when this situation is associated with low socio-economic status, poor general health and unrealistic expectations. This article presents a prosthetic rehabilitation of a very old patient, presenting a serious bone atrophy associated with a maxillary flabby ridge, whose dentures accelerated the bone resorption because of their poor fitting, lack of retention and wrong occlusal contacts. Despite his old age and scarce social life, restoring esthetics in the trial phase had a major psychological impact for the patient, making him more optimistic about the result and helping him to accept and functionally integrate the new complete dentures.