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Volume 2, Issue 2 (Suppl)
Dent Implants Dentures, an open access journal
ISSN: 2572-4835
Dental Medicine 2017
October 16-18, 2017
October 16-18, 2017 New York, USA
29
th
Annual World Congress on
Dental Medicine & Dentistry
Rehabilitation of trumpeter performance and the importance of dental treatment for wind musicians
Alexandre de Alcântara
Dental Office, Brazil
T
he rehabilitation of the performance of a trumpeter through dental treatment requires an understanding of dental materials
and protocols, as well as a knowledge of the musician's mandibular physiology during musical performance. A trumpeter, like
all other wind musicians, has for years developed a coordinated action of various muscles of the mouth, lips, chin and face, that
regulates the opening and closing of the lips. The embouchure, also acts as a region that separates the mouthpiece from the lips. This
double function control of the opening and protection of the lips allows a small area of the lips to produce rapid vibrations that,
consequently, will change the air column inside the instrument, producing the musical notes. The following clinical case illustrates
the need to look at the musician's needs in his performance, in addition to the normal esthetic and functional needs of a patient.
The trumpeter described here suffered an accident in his childhood, which led to the loss of the right upper central incisor. As
a result, the instrumentalist began to use a provisional made in an unnatural way that caused additional effort at the time of his
performances. The proposal was to first to put a dental implant and immediately proceed to the making of a new provisional one,
seeking a better anatomical shape for the tooth, which would aid in the sound production, also facilitating in the confection of the
definitive prosthesis, thus restoring the function and preserving the patient’s esthetics.
Biography
Alexandre de Alcântara has Graduated in 1993, and since 1995, he is a reference in the treatment of musicians in Brazil. In 2012, at the request of the auhtor, the Brazilian
Federal Council of Dentistry reformulated its procedures and approved a regulation that benefited all Brazilian wind instrumentalists, giving them the status of patients with
special needs within Dentistry. He is the Author of books, articles and various publications. He has already been interviewed by many television channels, as well as by
important media in the dental and musical areas in Brazil and abroad.
alealc3@gmail.comAlexandre de Alcântara, Dent Implants Dentures 2017, 2:2 (Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2572-4835-C1-003