A digital cast-free clinical workflow for oral rehabilitation with removable partial dentures: A dental technique

Nadin Al-Haj Husain; Mutlu Özcan; Martin Schimmel; Samir Abou-Ayash

doi:10.1016/j.prosdent.2019.05.008

A digital cast-free clinical workflow for oral rehabilitation with removable partial dentures: A dental technique

J Prosthet Dent. 2020 May;123(5):680-685. doi: 10.1016/j.prosdent.2019.05.008. Epub 2019 Aug 2.

Authors

Nadin Al-Haj Husain¹, Mutlu Özcan², Martin Schimmel³, Samir Abou-Ayash⁴

Affiliations

¹ Specialization Candidate, Department of Reconstructive Dentistry and Gerodontology, School of Dental Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
² Professor and Head, Dental Materials Unit, Center for Dental and Oral Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
³ Professor, Department of Reconstructive Dentistry and Gerodontology, School of Dental Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Professor, Division of Gerodontology and Removable Prosthodontics University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁴ Head of Section for Digital Implant- and Reconstructive Dentistry [DIRecD], Department of Reconstructive Dentistry and Gerodontology, School of Dental Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. Electronic address: samir.abou-ayash@zmk.unibe.ch.

PMID: 31383522
DOI: 10.1016/j.prosdent.2019.05.008

Abstract

The present report describes a technique for a digital cast-free clinical workflow for the fabrication of a combined tooth-implant-supported removable partial denture. This technique comprises digital intraoral scanning, computer-aided design, and subtractive computer-aided manufacturing for the denture base, denture teeth, and crowns and additive computer-aided manufacturing for the denture framework (CAD-CAM).

MeSH terms

Computer-Aided Design
Crowns
Denture Bases
Denture, Partial, Removable*
Workflow