Affiliation:
1. Moscow Regional Research and Clinical Insitute (MONIKI)
2. Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education “Russian University of Medicine” of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
Abstract
The article, based on literature data, lists the features needed to be taken into account by dentists when diagnosing and treating patients with acromegaly who apply for dental implantation and subsequent prosthetics.
A clinical case is presented of a patient, who underwent dental implantation with an unsuccessful result without taking into account the presence of acromegaly. It is shown how subsequent comprehensive treatment with an endocrinological diagnosis of somatotropinoma positively affected patient’s treatment.
Conclusions were drawn with recommendations, taking which into account will significantly increase the survival rate of dental implantation for patients with acromegaly.
Publisher
Stomatology for All - International Dental Review