Comparison of Man Hours Utilized for Mandibluar Overdenture Treatment Retained by Single Implant with Bar Fabricated by CAD-CAM Process and Conventional Casting Processs - An Vivo Study

Amit Patil; Prashanti Adsare; Pooja Raj; Shivakumar Puranik; Koineni Rajender; Rajesh Menga

doi:10.4103/jpbs.jpbs_1123_23

Comparison of Man Hours Utilized for Mandibluar Overdenture Treatment Retained by Single Implant with Bar Fabricated by CAD-CAM Process and Conventional Casting Processs - An Vivo Study

J Pharm Bioallied Sci. 2024 Feb;16(Suppl 1):S948-S950. doi: 10.4103/jpbs.jpbs_1123_23. Epub 2024 Feb 29.

Authors

Amit Patil¹, Prashanti Adsare¹, Pooja Raj¹, Shivakumar Puranik¹, Koineni Rajender¹, Rajesh Menga¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Prosthodontics and Implantology, H.K.E.s' S. Nijalingappa's Institute of Dental Sciences and Research, Kalaburagi, Karnataka, India.

Abstract

Introduction: Both the population's average life expectancy and the number of patients without teeth are rising. A 2012 epidemiological survey in India found that 30% of the population is edentulous. The rehabilitation process with a set of removable maxillary and mandibular complete dentures is the standard treatment for patients who are edentulous. This study is the first to incorporate and compare a novel approach to a single implant-retained mandibular overdenture with a bar attachment fabricated by CAD-CAM and a casting process on a single implant in the symphysis region.

Method: Five maxillary and mandibular completely edentulous patients were enrolled in the study.

Results: Significant difference was seen in the conventional laboratory time and CAD-CAM time as P < 0.05.

Conclusion: Compared to the conventional casting process, the single implant-supported bar mandibular overdenture (SISBOD) with a novel bar required fewer man hours and was more convenient.

Keywords: CAD-CAM; mandibluar overdenture; single implant.