The economics of complete dentures and implant-related services: A framework for analysis and preliminary outcomes

Patient-Related and Financial Outcomes Analysis of Conventional Full-Arch Rehabilitation Versus the All-on-4 Concept

“…11 Undoubtedly, clinical success and finances are 2 pivotal factors in patients' decision-making process to accept or reject a proposed treatment plan. [24][25][26][27][28] Our study also included outcomes from the assessment of quality of life during treatment. The quality of interim prosthesis in each patient was selected as an appropriate surrogate for the patient's quality of comfort during the transitional phase from the time of extractions until the delivery of the definitive prosthesis.…”

Current knowledge of prosthetic rehabilitation using implants: a literature review

“…The main research focused on establishing protocols that would develop the ideal prosthetic plan for each clinical case [1,2,8,9]. Thus, studies on the rehabilitation of partially edentulous patients, using single and multiple prostheses, as well as the development of over dentures attached to the implant, were being developed [1,2,10,11]. Research emerged in the following areas: cemented prostheses, retention and connection of the prostheses to implants, development of new prosthetic abutments, biomechanical studies, tooth and implant connections, force distribution in patients wear ingre movable prostheses, studies of implant materials, and application of previous clinical and laboratorial techniques only used in conventional prostheses [12].…”

Economic evaluation of healthcare – is it important to us?

“…[31][32][33][34] Recent years have also seen a number of papers undertaking economic analysis of implants. [35][36][37] The following examples of economic evaluation in dentistry have been selected to illustrate the issues described in the previous sections. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list.…”

“…MacEntee and Walton looked at the costs associated with implant retained prostheses and conventional dentures. 35 Jacobson et al undertook one of the few utility based dental investigations in which implant retained prostheses and conventional dentures were compared using a rating scale method. 36 They concluded that this was a reliable measure of patients' preferences and the implant group rated a successful implant-supported prosthesis as higher than a functional, fitting, aesthetic conventional denture, in spite of higher costs and longer periods of nonfunction.…”