Introduction
During the whole dental treatment process, Prosthodontics, also called department of full mouth rehabilitation, is usually the first and last stop. Prosthodontic specialist can make treatment plan for patients with missing, or severely damaged teeth, then reconstruct oral structure after other oral diseases were taken care of. We have applied the most advanced knowledge and materials into our treatment.
Staff
Full time staff:Dr. Li-Deh Lin; Yunn-Jy Chen; Tong-Mei Wang; You-Chyun Hsu; Ming-Shu Lee; Chia-Yuan Hu; Chien-Ju Lin; Max Chih-Mong Tsai
Part-time staff
Resident
Services
The service provided by department of Prosthodontics includes:
- Fixed Partial Denture: also known as dental crown and bridges. We prepare natural teeth as abutment to support metal or porcelain fused to metal dental prosthesis of crown and bridge. Lately we also introduce all-ceramic crowns for esthetic-demanding patients, to alleviate the possible gingival discoloration brought by traditional crown and bridges of metal materials.
- Removable Partial Denture: includes full mouth complete denture and removable partial denture. The service also includes immediate removable denture delivered just after teeth extraction, to avoid the embarrassing situation of edentulism.
- Dental Implantation: for the patients who are unwilling to have their natural teeth trimmed, don’t want to wear removable prosthesis, or unable to have stable dental prosthesis due to long-term resorption of bone, we provide a multidiscipline evaluation and treatment with periodontist and oral surgeon in the “Implant Center”. Dental implantation is to support prosthetic teeth with implanted titanium screws. Patients are usually benefited by enhanced looking, chewing function, and quality of life accordingly.
- Special Clinic for Temporal-mandibular Disorders: Conducted by three experienced visiting staff, this is the only special clinic focusing on temporal-mandibular joint pain or dysfunction as well as chewing system problems. TMD Clinic was established in 1980, this clinic initially served only the patients receiving prosthondintic patients. As the patients increased, this clinic started to serve OPD to all patients in need 6 days a week with 3 visiting staffs. TMD is the problem of TM joint and surrounding muscle group. Those patients with severe symptom and signs may feel painful joint, difficulties in opening mouth, limited chewing function, and hence poor work performance and emotion. Minor symptoms may include joint noise of jaw movement and pain on pre-auricular area or facial muscles. Many of our patients are referred by dentist for evaluation for of pre- or post- treatment problems in orthodontics or dental restorations. Besides, referrals also come from physicians, surgeons, and ENT doctors. Moreover, this clinic also emphasize on clinical researches which includes epidemiology of TMD, evaluation of splint treatment, effect of botulin injection, MRI analysis for joint noise and snoring, and analysis for chewing muscle activities. Presently we receive 20 registrations every morning and 5 splint deliveries every afternoon. Initial registration should be referred from department of general dentistry through consultation.
- Other Special prosthesis: such as obturator for patients with partially resected maxilla, and removable artificial gum for patients loss much of his gingiva.
Patient Care
fixed partial denture
removable partial denture
dental implant
complete denture
Map
Clinical Session
Clinical session-Register on the internet
Contact Information
Tel｜(02)23123456 ext 67405/67406
E-mail｜dental@ntuh.gov.tw