A COMPLEX BEHAVIORAL CASE OF ORTHOPEDIC DENTAL TREATMENT OF A GROUP II DISABLED PATIENT

Dentists quite often meet various types of non-constructive and conflict patient’s behavior. Meanwhile, there are rare cases when patients without both hands with aggressive behavior show manic persistence of defending their wrong position regarding their orthopedic treatment. We have not found such examples in the available literature, so we’d like to share a description of the orthopedic treatment of such a patient.

A 65-year-old patient visited the orthopedic clinic of the Krasnoyarsk State Medical University, complaining of bad previous teeth treatment in one of the dental clinics in Krasnoyarsk. The patient had been making dental prosthetics there for six months. He had filed a complaint to the appropriate authorities. An expert consultation of patient A. showed such complaints as: partial absence of teeth, difficulty of chewing food, increased sensitivity of the lower teeth to sweet and cold, mobility of the lower incisors, pain in the area of the right temporomandibular joint with opening of the mouth.

Carious, filled teeth, wedge-shaped defects of hard dental tissues, as well as periodontal diseases were identified. The patient’s request was to recommend cheap orthopedic materials and structures. So, stamped crowns and a removable partial plate prosthesis with bent clammers on the lower jaw, and a bridge-shaped prosthesis with stamped crowns on the upper jaw were recommended. Having received a consultation, the patient did not agree with the opinion of experts on non-removable prosthetics. The removable plate prostheses with bent clammers were made on the upper and lower jaws, which the patient did not like. The clinic made new removable prostheses with acetal clammers, which the patient also did not like, but he agreed to get used to them. Removing and fixing these prostheses presented great difficulties, which were associated with the deformity of phalanges. The patient somehow removes and fixes prostheses with the help of sharp objects.

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