INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION IN THE TREATMENT OF ADULT PATIENTS WITH CLASS III MALOCCLUSION

One of the most severe malocclusion in adults, the class III malocclusion, assume a compex, interdisciplinary approach. The lack of skeletal growth limits the therapeutic options to only two possibilities: camouflage or orthognathic surgery. These compex cases require careful planning, an interdisciplinary therapeutic concept and patient cooperation. Orthodontic therapy in such cases has its limits and must be correlated with other specialities of dental medicine like periodontology, prosthodontics or surgery. What are the best diagnostic tools? What are the best interdisciplinary collaboration protocols? How do we approach and treat such cases? The presentation will discuss these issues, illustrate them clinically and try to elucidate which are the most relevant factors to be considered for the different treatment strategies and how we do the risk management in such cases.