Prosthetics

Complete dentures: designing occlusal registration blocks to save clinical time and improve accuracy

If the patient has no previous dentures then average anterior height measurements can be used to construct the ORBs. These have commonly been 22 mm in the maxilla and 18 mm in the mandible.

How good are our impressions? an audit of alginate impression quality in the production of removable prostheses

A prospective audit was carried out with two cycles over a six-month period on alginate impressions for the provision of removable prostheses. A sample size of 10 impressions per cycle were recorded...

Long and short term management of implant-supported mandibular overdentures

As more patients chose to have ISMDs owing to their popularity and success rates, potential complications and maintenance need to be conveyed and readily managed. The two most common designs of ISMDs...