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Marian-Vladimir
Constantinescu
Trattamento semplificato
DDS, MSc, PhD
Holistic Dental & Medical Institute
in Gnatologia
of Bucharest - ROPOSTURO Il metodo Global Occlusion
Bucharest, Romania
e-mail: dr.vladimir.constantinescu@gmail.com Author: Piero Silvestrini Biavati
Publisher: Edra S.p.A., Italy
Language: Italian
ISBN: 978-8-821-44767-9
Edition: 1/e
Books Review
Publish Year: 2019
Pages: 223, illustrated
Price: € 99,00
Over time, a number of renowned researchers have published books in which they have made
known to the readers the basics and practice of gnathology: Niles F. Guichet - Gnathology: Every
Day Dentistry, 1964; William K. Solberg - Clinical Gnathology and Occlusion, 1974; Axel Bauer,
Alexander Gutowski - Gnathology: Introduction to Theory and Practice, 1976; Charles E. Stuart,
Irwin B. Golden - The History of Gnathology, 1984.
Dr. Piero Silvestrini Biavati has recently provided the readers with a book in Italian [Simplified
Treatment in Gnathology: The Global Occlusion Method].
This book is the author’s plea for gnathology based on a practical, fast, manual and not very
instrumental method: the Global Occlusion method. The book is divided in 13 chapters.
The first two chapters present the simplified anatomy and physiology of the stomatognathic
system and the etiology of gnathological problems. The next chapter recalls the ideal functions
of the stomatognathic system. These fundamental notions contribute to a consistent functional
analysis eloquently exemplified by a multitude of clinical signs, which makes up chapter four.
The fifth chapter details the gnathological examination in its complexity. Therapeutic reason-
ing (chapter 6), as the basis for ensuring therapeutic success is addressed in detail in separate
successive chapters: the centric method and its verification (chapter 7), the therapeutic process:
rehabilitation method (chapter 8), the custom bite method - SilveSplint (chapter 9), rational use
of articulators (chapter 10), postural adaptation and head-neck correlation (chapter 11) and
differentiated postural analysis (chapter 12).
The last chapter is a synthesis of the aim of the Global Occlusion method in order to bring each
gnathology practitioner closer to include it in the routine of working with their patients. The
book is clearly written,convincingly illustrated to support the author's method. To increase the
number of the more and more frequently encountered patients with gnatho-postural problems
benefiting from this book, Dr. Piero Silvestrini Biavati’s “Trattamento semplificato in Gnatologia:
Il metodo Global Occlusion” must be translated into English.
https://doi.org/10.25241/stomaeduj.2021.8(3).bookreview.4
The Books Review is drafted in the reviewer’s sole wording and illustrates his opinions
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