Immediate dentures: 2. Clinical stages of construction

Dent Update. 2010 Apr;37(3):154-6, 158-60. doi: 10.12968/denu.2010.37.3.154.

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.

Clinical relevance: This paper covers the clinical and laboratory stages of immediate denture construction.

MeSH terms

  • Dental Casting Technique
  • Dental Impression Materials / chemistry
  • Dental Impression Technique / instrumentation
  • Denture Bases
  • Denture Design*
  • Denture Rebasing
  • Denture Retention
  • Denture, Overlay
  • Denture, Partial, Immediate*
  • Humans
  • Jaw Relation Record / methods
  • Laboratories, Dental
  • Models, Dental
  • Oral Hygiene
  • Postoperative Complications
  • Tooth Extraction
  • Tooth Preparation, Prosthodontic
  • Tooth, Artificial

Substances

  • Dental Impression Materials