Description
For Dr. Joseph Rota, full mouth reconstruction is a collaborative experience with Colorado Springs patients. After determining the right treatments to address your concerns, Dr. Rota will create a detailed wax-up model to give you a preview of your finished results. You'll be able to handle this model yourself and tell Dr. Rota about any adjustments you'd like to make.
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Here we have a set of stone models
of a patient that I recently saw,
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and you can see
their teeth here, pretty short.
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This patient is about 44 years old,
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and she has been grinding her teeth
for quite a long time.
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Her bite is very uneven,
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and she's had some pain
with her jaw joint.
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You can see that she's actually
broken a couple of teeth here.
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What I did for this patient,
and the most important thing that we do
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when we're starting
to treat a patient for full mouth rehab,
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which is what we call this,
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is that we do a diagnostic wax-up.
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I take her snow models
and I mount them on a jaw simulator,
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and then I determine
where her bite should be,
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and I fabricate a diagnostic wax-up.
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This is where the patient was,
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and this is the result
of my diagnostic wax-up.
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By doing this diagnostic wax-up,
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the patient gets to see
what the final result may look like.
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We can then take molds of the wax-up
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and actually place them
over the patient's teeth
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before we do anything
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so that they can get some idea
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of what the esthetic result
will look like in their mouth.
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These models are then also used
in guiding my preparation of the teeth,
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and we make, again, a mold of these teeth
so that we can make temporary.
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After we've prepared the teeth,
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we can place this exact
representation of the final product.
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This gives the patient a chance
to look at the teeth, the final product,
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in a temporary form,
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and we can make any changes
to improve the result
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or to improve
what the patient is looking for.
