Dear Colleague,
I take the liberty of addressing your attention for a minute or two of your time to present you with a text which in my opinion is extremely useful to our profession. It is entitled “Dental prosthetic methods and fixed, mobile, and implantological methods alternative to the classical”.
Rather than a manual for beginners, this text is a condensed review of thoughts based on thirty years’ experience trying to solve the most critical conditions a prosthesis dentist has to face in his daily practice.
The text is subdivided into three chapters.
The first is dedicated to fixed prostheses, while the other two refer to simple and complex removable partial dentures.
It is a collection of practical suggestions that stem from my exclusive daily practice, having established that there is no better alternative for the time being.
Both in fixed and mobile prostheses, there are devices that improve the work flow with consistent, perfect results, not due to chance circumstances but certain and guaranteed in advance.
I shall not dwell upon this any further, as I do not wish to appear bombastic or tiresome. I have simply explained my observations to you and can assure you that only by reflecting on the text will you become convinced of the precision of my conclusions.
A specimen of the book can be seen at the following URL: www.agxnet.com/mereu/t_ing.htm
Nevertheless, the URL only gives a rough idea of the real content of the book, though the reported anchorage is certainly the best ever among the vast range of possible anchors in the articulation of the removable partial denture on residual teeth.
It also contains a description of a splint that is so minimally invasive that it preserves natural aesthetic qualities and guarantees tooth vitality, while at the same time it is of a far better quality than any other kind of splint.
These devices, which cannot be found in any textbook, is what I use in my daily profession, to mine and my patients’ greatest satisfaction.
Since my message is meant to be practical, please keep in mind that you can dispose of an unlimited amount of anchorages, plus the assistance based on twenty years of experience from me and from my dental technician, who are ready and willing to help you put the proposed techniques into practice.
On reading my publication, you will soon realize the full utility and practicality of the tool: mine is not a proposal for a particular product, but for a total change in your work system; a thing not found in textbooks, though based on past and present acquisitions in dental science.
This publication describes an unpublished anchoring system of the entire lower jaw with implants and 2 latches.
The system is certainly the best ever - better than any other before it.
Regarding implantology, I report a newspaper interview on a case of overdenture that is quoted in the text.

Special dentistry

We report the newspaper interview with the famous dentist, Dr. Antonello Mereu, on the pressing issue of complete lower dentures.
With this interview I would like to tell the general public how I have faced and solved the difficult and precarious case of total toothlessness, for which in the majority of cases no suitable diet is possible.

Question: What means are really effective at present, and can in fact solve this serious eating condition?
Answer: At present, before my contribution there has been no effective means of anchoring the notorious lower denture to the jaw, which was generally put aside as a totally useless foreign body that causes great suffering and is used only for aesthetical reasons at most.

Question: With what means do you propose to solve this serious problem?
Answer: The method I propose to anchor the lower denture is sufficient to allow these patients a suitable diet, and is also affordable economically.

Question: Can you tell us then what device you have used to solve this problem?
Answer: The device is regularly patented and has been experimented for over twenty years in other fields of dental prosthesis. It is made up of a latch, which is activated by a finger and introduced into a female in such a way as to guarantee perfect permanent non-traumatic anchoring. This simple mechanism holds the denture so firmly that it is almost part and parcel with the mouth, allowing the patient to eat almost any food, including the most sticky.

Can you prove your statements with the resolution of at least one case?
Answer: I certainly can.
The extremely difficult case of an eighty-year-old woman, to whom I have given a prosthesis with this system. The result was simply spectacular: she was able to eat any food immediately and without difficulty: foods she had desired to eat for at least twenty years. She has had this denture for eight months now, and I have not registered a single complaint.

Last question: Does current implantology propose other anchoring systems similar to yours?
Answer: There are 2 anchoring systems but they are very different from mine. They are not very popular because they anchor the denture so precariously that the patient is obliged to have them periodically reactivated, every 30 – 45 days, by the dentist. Though quite recent, these systems are not sufficiently retentive, and they tend to cause the fatal loss of artificial anchorages, leading to so much frustration and depression.