{"id":1169,"date":"2024-12-17T15:42:18","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T06:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hospital.dent.osaka-u.ac.jp\/?post_type=divisions&#038;p=1169"},"modified":"2025-04-03T00:42:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T15:42:56","slug":"prosthodontics-and-oral-rehabilitation","status":"publish","type":"departments","link":"https:\/\/hospital.dent.osaka-u.ac.jp\/en\/departments\/prosthodontics-and-oral-rehabilitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosthodontics and Oral Rehabilitation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Outline<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Rehabilitation and maintenance of oral functions<\/strong><br>Prosthodontics restores missing teeth, parts of teeth, and oral function with dental prosthesis. When patients lose teeth due to cavities or gum disease, prosthodontic treatments bring back function, making it easier to enjoy meals. We treat patients with dental prosthesis such as crowns, fixed partial dentures, removable partial or complete dentures, and dental implants.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Supporting the oral health of older adults<\/strong><br>By supporting chewing, swallowing, and speaking abilities, we work to improve patients' quality of life (QoL). We diagnose and treat early signs of decline in oral function (oral frailty) and more advanced issues (oral hypofunction) through prosthodontic treatment and specialized rehabilitation.<br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-vk-blocks-spacer vk_spacer vk_spacer-type-margin-top\"><div class=\"vk_block-margin-lg--margin-top\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Head's Message<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/hospital.dent.osaka-u.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/79e50bb3c7c1d1e11292c20d020258e9-1280x1920.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3884\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hospital.dent.osaka-u.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/79e50bb3c7c1d1e11292c20d020258e9-1280x1920.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/hospital.dent.osaka-u.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/79e50bb3c7c1d1e11292c20d020258e9-667x1000.jpg 667w, https:\/\/hospital.dent.osaka-u.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/79e50bb3c7c1d1e11292c20d020258e9-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hospital.dent.osaka-u.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/79e50bb3c7c1d1e11292c20d020258e9-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hospital.dent.osaka-u.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/79e50bb3c7c1d1e11292c20d020258e9-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/hospital.dent.osaka-u.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/79e50bb3c7c1d1e11292c20d020258e9-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enjoying meals is one of life\u2019s pleasures, and teeth are essential for this.<br>Even if some teeth are lost, dentures and implants can allow patients to continue chewing comfortably.<br>In our department, our goal is to help patients \u201cenjoy eating (masticatory performance)\u201d, \u201cswallow easily (swallowing)\u201d, and \u201cspeak clearly (speaking)\u201d. We offer treatments, mainly using dentures, based on our research.<br>We are also focusing on prosthodontic treatment for congenital missing teeth associated with cleft lip and cleft palate, as well as post-surgical reconstructive treatment (maxillofacial prosthetics) for conditions such as oral cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">\u3000Kazunori IKEBE<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-vk-blocks-spacer vk_spacer vk_spacer-type-margin-top\"><div class=\"vk_block-margin-lg--margin-top\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Main Staff<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table vk-table--mobile-block vk-table--th--width25 vk-table--th--bg-bright\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>Head<\/td><td>Kazunori IKEBE<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Vice Head<\/td><td>Tomoya GONDA<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Chief of Outpatient Clinic<\/td><td>Tomoaki MAMENO<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-vk-blocks-spacer vk_spacer vk_spacer-type-margin-top\"><div class=\"vk_block-margin-lg--margin-top\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<dl class=\"keyword-tag\"><dt>Keywords<\/dt><dd><a href=\"https:\/\/hospital.dent.osaka-u.ac.jp\/en\/keyword-tag\/dentures\/\">Dentures<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/hospital.dent.osaka-u.ac.jp\/en\/keyword-tag\/dental-implant-treatment\/\">Dental Implant Treatment<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/hospital.dent.osaka-u.ac.jp\/en\/keyword-tag\/prosthodontics\/\">Prosthodontics<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/hospital.dent.osaka-u.ac.jp\/en\/keyword-tag\/geriatric-dentistry\/\">Geriatric Dentistry<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/hospital.dent.osaka-u.ac.jp\/en\/keyword-tag\/maxillofacial-prosthodontics\/\">Maxillofacial Prosthodontics<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/hospital.dent.osaka-u.ac.jp\/en\/keyword-tag\/oral-frailty_oral-hypofunction\/\">Oral Frailty \/ Oral Hypofunction<\/a><\/dd><\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rehabilitation and maintenance of oral functions. Prosthodontics restores missing teeth, parts of teeth, and oral function...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"template":"","classification":[148],"keyword-tag":[24,35,73,74,75,76],"symptom-tag":[81,82,104,105],"class_list":["post-1169","departments","type-departments","status-publish","hentry","classification-prosthodontics-and-orthodontics","keyword-tag-dentures","keyword-tag-dental-implant-treatment","keyword-tag-prosthodontics","keyword-tag-geriatric-dentistry","keyword-tag-maxillofacial-prosthodontics","keyword-tag-oral-frailty_oral-hypofunction","symptom-tag-chewing-mastication-disorders","symptom-tag-tooth-loss","symptom-tag-decline-of-oral-function","symptom-tag-difficulty-using-dentures","en-US"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hospital.dent.osaka-u.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/departments\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hospital.dent.osaka-u.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/departments"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hospital.dent.osaka-u.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/departments"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hospital.dent.osaka-u.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/hospital.dent.osaka-u.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/departments\/1169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4700,"href":"https:\/\/hospital.dent.osaka-u.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/departments\/1169\/revisions\/4700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hospital.dent.osaka-u.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"classification","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hospital.dent.osaka-u.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/classification?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"keyword-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hospital.dent.osaka-u.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword-tag?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"symptom-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hospital.dent.osaka-u.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/symptom-tag?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}