Fundamental Differences Between Crown & Bridge Versus Traditional Hybrid Prosthetics (619)

This presentation will help participants visualize how a digital dental workflow can be utilized to document a patient’s existing condition, allowing the dentist and lab technician to collaborate on the prosthetic design. The aim is to, in essence, create an ideal cosmetic blueprint through which virtual implant placements can be planned utilizing dynamic navigation to place the implants in the proper alignment to optimize surgical and prosthetic results. This presentation will also discuss the advantages of designing a FP1 (Crown & Bridge) prosthesis over the traditional hybrid prosthesis with respect to the surgical workflow, exposing the patient to less morbidity as well as the final FP1 prosthesis being more cleansable to the patient. The presentation will conclude with discussions of criteria for success and evaluation at maintenance visits to determine if an FP1 prosthesis may be more successful than a hybrid prosthesis in the long-term. At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to apply these principles with their next full arch implant patient.