Complete Denture and Implant Overdenture: Guidelines for Efficient Treatment
Complete Denture and Implant Overdenture: Guidelines for Efficient Treatment
Course overview
Everything you need to know about complete dentures and implant overdentures to start treating your edentulous patients!
Time and efficiency are crucial for achieving successful treatment outcomes, particularly when working with edentulous elderly patients.
In this course, you will gain a detailed understanding of the clinical aspects of analog and digital dentures, including:
A comprehensive overview of the digital denture workflow
Scanning techniques for accurate digital impressions
Effective use of facial parameters to enhance aesthetic outcomes
Protocols for the efficient and precise fabrication of comlete dentures and implant-overdentures.
Course lessons
Lesson 1. Impression Registration. From Analog to Digital Workflow
Impression taking in removable prosthodontics
Fundamental aspect for ensuring retention and to guarantee for the success of clinical cases
Protocols for taking preliminary and definitive impressions
Protocols of border modeling when taking the impression
Techniques to optimize the scanning procedure in order to achieve high accuracy.
Lesson 2. Inter-arches position registration in edentulous patients
Inter-arch registration in fully edentulous patients
Fundamental aspect for teeth positioning
Protocols of teeth positioning without a reference
Step-by-step analysis of clinical protocols that are required to analyze phonetics aesthetics
Step-by-step analysis of clinical protocols that are required to analyze the occlusal plane
Step-by-step analysis of clinical protocols that are required to analyze centric relationship recording including Gothic arch tracing.
Lesson 3. Aesthetic Approach to Complete Dentures
Importance of aesthetics in patient satisfaction and acceptance
Methods for achieving aesthetic appearance through an individualized approach
Protocols for choosing teeth shape, dimension, and position
Protocols for teeth and resin customization for a natural and mimetic restoration.
Lesson 4. Protocols of Digital Immediate Dentures
Overview of the digital workflow in removable prosthodontics
Digital workflow for immediate denture cases
Protocols of intraoral scanning for immediate dentures
Utilizing facial parameters to enhance aesthetic results in digital prosthodontics
Surgical aspects to consider for facilitating healing in the context of the digital workflow
Advantages and efficiency of the digital workflow in removable prosthodontics
Protocols of digital techniques in immediate denture cases
Analysis of clinical cases highlighting successful outcomes using the digital workflow.
Lesson 5. Implant Overdentures: Theory and Clinical Aspects
Patient preference for implant overdentures for improved masticatory efficiency, retention, and satisfaction
Utilizing existing complete dentures for valuable diagnostic information in fabricating new implant overdentures
Diagnosis and treatment planning: aesthetic outcomes, tooth size and arrangement, occlusal schemes, and denture contour
Analysis of attachments and attachment selection in various clinical cases
Consideration of mechanical and biological factors in the treatment planning and treatment process
Integration of digital implant overdenture planning to save time and resources.
Lesson 6. Relining Bases and the Concept of Retention
Complete denture relining as a treatment option for improved retention and base accuracy
Techniques for complete denture relining to enhance denture durability
Risks associated with improper relining techniques, including changes in denture position and occlusion
Material selection for relining
Protocols for direct and indirect relining approaches
Techniques to improve adhesion to the previous denture substrate, even in the context of digital dentures
Emphasis on preventing detrimental effects on masticatory function through proper relining procedures.
