Immediate Dentures: 2. Clinical Stages of Construction

From Volume 37, Issue 3, April 2010 | Pages 154-160

Authors

Geoffrey St George

BDS, DGDP (UK), MSc, FDS RCS, FDS (Rest Dent)

Consultant in Restorative Dentistry

Articles by Geoffrey St George

Nicholas J Lewis

BDS(Hons), MFDS RCS(Edin) MSc, FDS(Rest Dent)

Consultant in Restorative Dentistry

Articles by Nicholas J Lewis

Cameron Malton

Head of Prosthetic Laboratories

Articles by Cameron Malton

Richard Welfare

BDS, MSc, FDS RCS(Eng)

Consultant in Restorative Dentistry, Endodontic Unit, Eastman Dental Hospital, University College Hospitals NHS Trust, 256 Gray’s Inn Road, London WC1X 8LD

Articles by Richard Welfare

Abstract

Immediate dentures remain an important tool for providing patients with an instant replacement option for extracted teeth. The second paper in this series of two aims to cover the clinical and laboratory stages of immediate denture construction. It looks at the clinical techniques that can be used to facilitate the accurate construction of immediate dentures, as well as some of the problems that can compromise their final outcome.

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