Fundamentals of Treatment Planning. Lino Calvani
FUNDAMENTALS OF TREATMENT PLANNING
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Calvani, Lino, author.
Title: Fundamentals of treatment planning : guidelines on how to develop, plan, write and deliver a prosthodontics care project / Lino Calvani.
Description: Chicago : Quintessence Publishing Co, Inc, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “This book helps dentists, prosthodontists, and students form and organize their thinking and formulate correct diagnoses and therapies that start with appropriate treatment planning”-- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020010451 (print) | LCCN 2020010452 (ebook) | ISBN 9780867157925 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781647240332 (ebook)
Subjects: MESH: Dental Prosthesis | Patient Care Planning | Prosthodontics--methods
Classification: LCC RK651 (print) | LCC RK651 (ebook) | NLM WU 500 | DDC 617.6/92--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020010451
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020010452
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Layout and Production: Quintessenz Verlags-GmbH, Berlin, Germany
Cover illustration: Lino Calvani
“Tristo Discipulo Qui Magister Non Superavit!”
“Bad is the student who won’t do better than his teacher!”
University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy (founded in 1303)
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited; imagination encircles the world. Any fool can know, but the point is to understand.
I didn’t arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind. I have no special talent; I am only passionately curious.
Time is relative and its unique value is given by what we do as it passes.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
Dedication
As science teaches, the concepts expressed in this book were not written as a point of arrival of learning, but rather as a continuous progression of learning. This book is dedicated to all my beloved teachers who inspired me and who still enrich my life as I remind my students that knowledge always follows when you have passion and commitment.
Lino Calvani
Table of Contents
Organization of the book and how to use it
Prosthodontists: Who we are and what we do
Chapter one Past, present, and future of treatment planning
‘Hyper-science’ and the future
Chapter two Treatment planning management
Some definitions and basic premises
Professionalism: four human factors
|1. Proper communication and dialogue with the patient
|4. Positive professional characteristics
Prosthodontic economics and patient treatment costs