Intraoral scans of edentulous arches for denture design in a single procedure

Lucio Lo Russo; Giammarco Caradonna; Angelo Salamini; Laura Guida

doi:10.1016/j.prosdent.2019.03.022

Intraoral scans of edentulous arches for denture design in a single procedure

J Prosthet Dent. 2020 Feb;123(2):215-219. doi: 10.1016/j.prosdent.2019.03.022. Epub 2019 May 29.

Authors

Lucio Lo Russo¹, Giammarco Caradonna², Angelo Salamini³, Laura Guida⁴

Affiliations

¹ Associate Professor of Oral Diseases, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, School of Dentistry, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy. Electronic address: lucio.lorusso@unifg.it.
² Resident, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, School of Dentistry, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy.
³ Co-founder, Sintesi sud srl, Ariano Irpino (AV), Italy.
⁴ Private practice, Salus Oris srl, Vallesaccarda (AV), Italy.

PMID: 31153618
DOI: 10.1016/j.prosdent.2019.03.022

Abstract

Digital denture design requires anatomic information, an accurate maxillomandibular relationship, and parameters to guide tooth arrangement. Capturing all these data by intraoral scanning makes their immediate digitization, integration, and transfer to the computer-aided design workflow possible, which can be started without an additional procedure. The presented technique describes the digital workflow to automatically align intraoral scans of completely or partially edentulous maxillary and mandibular arches according to the maxillomandibular relationships registered in digitally designed occlusion rims adapted on the patient.

MeSH terms

Computer-Aided Design
Denture Design*
Humans
Maxilla
Mouth, Edentulous*
Workflow