| Summary: | <p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"><strong>Introduction:</strong> Aging is a universal and irreversible phenomenon, involving morphological and functional changes in the oral cavity with age. The fully edentulous elderly have progressive reabsorption of their residual ridges, leading to loss of retention and stability of their prostheses.<br /> <strong>Objective:</strong> To present a case where rehabilitated ball implants, with a removable overdenture placed.<br /> <strong>Case presentation:</strong> A female patient of 61 years old attended in the Prosthetics Implantology multidisciplinary consult of the Educational Clinic of Marianao municipality, with lower full denture prosthesis with lack of retention and stability, which had changed repeatedly unable to solve her need. Also it has marked residual alveolar ridge reabsorption. After a comprehensive evaluation and with the consent of the patient, we proceed to the placement of two OVD ball implants in 33 and 43 zone by flap surgery, being restored with a removable overdenture in the same work session.<br /> <strong>Conclusions:</strong> This prosthetic rehabilitation allowed satisfying the chewing function, correct phonation and an appropriate facial aesthetic, all necessary for the quality of life of the elderly.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"><strong> </strong></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"><strong>Keywords:</strong> Aging, elderly, overdenture, implants, rehabilitation.</span></p>
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