Presented By:
- Dr. Waldemar Daudt Polido
Description:
This lecture outlines implant strategies in elderly patients that aim to achieve three objectives: reduce risk and morbidity, maintain predictability, and allow maintenance and retrievability. Waldemar Polido presents key points of treatment planning, appropriate preoperative care, and surgery specific to the elderly patient. He addresses the role of digital planning and guided surgery in these patients. He also details the surgical and restorative options in accordance with his three objectives for a variety of clinical situations – single missing tooth, partial edentulism, and complete edentulism. Multiple clinical cases are presented to show the concepts of using shorter implants to avoid major grafting, restoring the dental arch only to premolars or first molars, and using screw-retained prostheses to allow retrievability.
