{"title":"Orthotic therapy for the partially or fully edentulous patient.","authors":"W S Bledsoe","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The limited research on the correlation between partially and fully edentulous patients and temporomandibular dysfunction leads this author to believe that a practitioner could expect 25 to 75% of the patients in need of phase 1 orthotic therapy to be in one of these two groups. Unfortunately, most of the literature on orthotic therapy documents cases with a full complement of natural teeth. This chapter gives a systematic approach to the fabrication and insertion of orthotics on and over full and partial dentures.</p>","PeriodicalId":77516,"journal":{"name":"Cranio clinics international","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Cranio clinics international","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The limited research on the correlation between partially and fully edentulous patients and temporomandibular dysfunction leads this author to believe that a practitioner could expect 25 to 75% of the patients in need of phase 1 orthotic therapy to be in one of these two groups. Unfortunately, most of the literature on orthotic therapy documents cases with a full complement of natural teeth. This chapter gives a systematic approach to the fabrication and insertion of orthotics on and over full and partial dentures.