General Membership Meeting: The Lip-Tooth-Ridge Classification. A Guidepost for the Treatment of the Edentulous Patient.

Seeing patients with terminal dentition has become a common problem we see in everyday interdisciplinary practice. Over the past decades, osseointegrated implants have provided extraordinary solutions, either supporting or retaining prosthetic devices aimed to restore esthetics, form and function. This lecture will describe the LTR or Lip-tooth-ridge classification facilitating the treating team to decide what may be the best prosthetic alternative based on the patient´s condition, instead of trying to fit the patient’s population into a “one size fit all” treatment approach.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
1. Describe the LTR Classification
2. Review of prosthetic alternatives for the terminal dentition and fully edentulous arch
3. To better comprehend treatment indications and patient risk assessment for the edentulous maxilla.

Biography:

Dr. Jack Goldberg received his dental degree from the Technological University of Mexico in 2011. Dr. Goldberg continued at the USC School of Dentistry with a 3-year full-time residency in the specialty of prosthodontics, receiving his Prosthodontics Certification in 2014, then he earned a Masters of Science in Orofacial Pain and Oral Medicine at the University of Southern California. Dr. Goldberg’s completed a 1-year surgical fellowship program in implant dentistry at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. Presently, he works together with his partner Dr. Ricardo Mitrani in private practice in Mexico City.