Author(s)

Giovanna Lima Costa Barcelos¹, Rafaella de Oliveira Matiolo¹, Sérgio Carvalho Costa², Cláudia Lopes Brilhante Bhering², José Augusto César Discacciati²

¹Dental School, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
²Department of Restorative Dentistry, Dental School, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

With the increased life expectancy, complete dentures have been used in the treatment of edentulism progressively. It restores stomatognathic system functions, providing improvements in chewing, aesthetics, and phonetics. The aim was to report an oral rehabilitation of a patient with severe aesthetic and functional impairment, with Angle’s class III malocclusion. The patient sought the extension project of the School of Dentistry of the Federal University of Minas Gerais with aesthetic complaints. After clinical and radiographic evaluation, the proposed planning was immediate complete denture maxilla and immediate implant-retained overdenture in mandible. During clinical evaluation it was observed that the patient was Angle’s III. The rehabilitation was performed as proposed and at the end of the treatment, it was possible to revert the class III occlusal pattern to Angle’s I. The excellent maxillomandibular relationship was achieved, which ensured optimal facial aesthetics and functional condition. It was concluded that the immediate complete dentures and immediate implant-retained overdenture might be beneficial for restoring the aesthetics and function of patients with Angle’s class III malocclusion.

Dental Prosthesis, Immediate Complete Denture, Overdenture, Dental Implants, Dental Occlusion

Barcelos, G. , Matiolo, R. , Costa, S. , Bhering, C. and Discacciati, J. (2020) Class III Reversion with Immediate Complete Denture and Immediate Implant-Retained Overdenture: Case Report. Open Journal of Stomatology, 10, 372-382. doi: 10.4236/ojst.2020.1012034.