Prevalence and patterns of tooth loss in U.S. employed adult and senior populations, 1985–86

Occlusal Changes Following Posterior Tooth Loss in Adults. Part 1: A Study of Clinical Parameters Associated with the Extent and Type of Supraeruption in Unopposed Posterior Teeth

“…Battistuzzi et al 6 and Marcus et al 7 found that the most commonly missing posterior tooth was the first permanent molar, followed by the second molar, second premolar, and finally the first premolar. Meskin and Brown 8 reported that mandibular posterior teeth were more likely to be missing than maxillary posterior teeth, and that with increasing age, posterior teeth were more likely to be missing bilaterally. We may therefore speculate that in our aging population there will be an increasing number of partially dentate elderly patients in need of prosthetic replacement of missing posterior teeth 9 …”

Removable Partial Denture Education in U.S. Dental Schools

“…In 1995, the Institute of Medicine published a report emphasizing the need for dental educators to reassess the predoctoral prosthodontic curriculum to make it more relevant to clinical practice for the general practitioner 1 . Such a curriculum will be important, considering that millions of individuals without complete dentitions will require prosthodontic treatment well into the 21st century 2 …”

Preclinical complete dentures curriculum survey

“…In 1995 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published a report emphasizing the need for dental educators to reassess the predoctoral prosthodontic curriculum to make it more relevant to clinical practice for the general practitioner 1 . Such a curriculum will be important considering that millions of individuals without complete dentitions will require prosthodontic treatment well into the 21st century 2 …”