Multidisciplinary approach to dental treatments: orthodontics as a powerful

tool to improve restorative and periodontal treatments.

Multi-disciplinary treatments often represent a challenge for the dental team.

In many cases Orthodontics could improve treatment planning and outcome.

This lecture will discuss the interaction of Orthodontics with other dental

specialties, especially periodontics and restorative dentistry.

The role of Orthodontics with the aim to facilitate restorative treatments, to

save compromised teeth and to avoid or post-pone implant placement will be

discussed.

Multidisciplinary approach to implant treatments: orthodontics as a

powerful tool improve implant treatments and complex rehabilitations.

Implant therapy can be very successful when optimal conditions for implant

placement are achieved. In the daily routine these conditions are not always

present and should be established before implant treatment.

Orthodontics could be an excellent tool to optimize implant placement and to

obtain successful implant-supported restorations. The interaction of all dental

disciplines in complex rehabilitations with management of vertical dimension

will also be discussed.