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Gerodontology 2010; doi: 10.1111/j.1741‐2358.2010.00374.x 
 Clinical feasibility of mandibular implant overdenture retainers submitted to immediate load

Introduction:  Millions of people around the world do not have access to the benefits of osseointegration. Treatments involving oral rehabilitation with overdentures have been widely used by specialists in the oral medicine field. This is an alternative therapy for retention and stability achievement in total prosthesis with conventional treatment, and two implants are enough to establish a satisfactory overdenture.

Objective:  The objectives of the study were to evaluate 16 patients of both sexes, with an average age of 47.4 ± 4 years, using electromyographic analysis of masseter and temporal muscles and analyse the increase of incisive and molar maximal bite force with their existing complete dentures and following mandibular implant …