Oral Rehabilitation
For which patients is oral rehabilitation intended?
Patients in need of complete oral rehabilitation are those who have multiple missing teeth and/or excessive wear of their teeth, causing poor chewing function, poor esthetics and negatively affecting their dental and general health.
What does a complete oral rehabilitation treatment consist of?
It consists of recovering those worn teeth by returning them to their original shape and replacing the missing teeth with prostheses. The main objective is to restore normal oral patterns from a minimally invasive philosophy, that is, to restore function and esthetics with minimal intervention of the remaining tooth.
After a fall and breakage of teeth, what solutions does oral rehabilitation offer?
The solution would be to reconstruct or place prostheses for partially broken teeth and to replace with implants and prostheses those whose breakage has been total, always intervening as little as possible on the remaining tooth.
What are the perceptions of patients who have undergone oral rehabilitation?
They are very positive, since the fact of recovering masticatory function has a direct impact on the quality of life of our patients. In addition, the esthetic improvement is usually very visible, which has a very positive impact on their confidence. They are very grateful treatments, especially after a normal period of adaptation.
Dental malocclusion and back pain
What is the relationship between malocclusion and back problems?
When we observe dental malocclusion, it is usually accompanied by other symptoms such as wear, clicking and pain in the temporomandibular joint, loss of vertical dimension or absence of teeth that affect the entire muscular and articular system.
The functions of the masticatory musculature, which is what allows us to eat and speak, depend on a complex system that not only includes the muscles of the face. This is why we find patients with back pain caused by poor dental occlusion.
What are the symptoms that alert us to these problems?
Especially noises and discomfort at the level of the jaw joint and muscle overload both at the level of the jaw and cervical.
What treatment is required for dental malocclusion and back problems?
The main origin of the malocclusion must be determined and addressed in conjunction with other disciplines such as orthodontics, prosthetic rehabilitation, osteopathy, physiotherapy or chiropractic. The treatment of dental splinting combined with chiropractic sessions to correct vertebral subluxations is usually very effective.
By achieving a balance of the body, understanding it as a whole and correcting malocclusion, we will help the rest of the body and mainly the back and hips to function correctly and without pain.
What is the importance of combined treatment?
It is very important to diagnose the pathologies jointly with the appropriate specialists before starting treatment, in order to determine the phases to follow. Sometimes you have to start treating the malocclusion and then the back or vice versa.
The objective is to stabilize and alleviate the problem by means of the appropriate treatment combined with all the available tools, thus eliminating the cause and origin of the problem.