Treatment Planning in Restorative Dentistry and Implant Prosthodontics

Planning determines the long-term result and yet is rarely taught as a discipline in its own right: it is taken for granted, and the clinician ends up resolving it by intuition. Against that, Antonio H. C. Rodrigues proposes an explicit reasoning process, applicable in daily practice, running from the first visit to the definitive restoration. The route teaches how to collect and order the clinical data, from extraoral examination, soft and hard tissues and edentulous areas to the considerations of each specialty, how to interpret them in order to establish diagnosis, prognosis and objectives, and how to build the plan in conventional as well as implant-supported prosthodontics. It ends by preparing the patient to decide on an informed basis. In English.