Removable complete dentures and overdentures: analog and digital manufacturing methods
Removable complete dentures and overdentures: analog and digital manufacturing methods
Course overview
Get a step-by-step guide to the clinical and laboratory stages of manufacturing removable complete dentures and overdentures in analog and digital!
Lecturers will guide you through each stage of the prosthodontic treatment of edentulous patients:
Impressions and CR registration
Mounting of casts in the articulator
Modeling and manufacturing of dentures
Denture delivery and retention.
You will find many video demonstrations, life hacks and clinical case studies!
Course lessons
Lesson 1. Current techniques of occlusal registration in the fabrication of complete removable dentures
Determination of the centric relation of the jaws: classic and new approach
5 main factors for determining VDO
Harmony of the face and facial features
Myostabilized centric relation
Methods of increasing VDO
Disadvantages of cephalometric analysis in determining VDO
Variations in VDO
Orthopedic stable centric relation: anatomical and physiological aspects
Methods of registering the centric relation in complete denture
Horizontal reference plane: methods of determination
The technique of using the face-bow
Axis orbital plane: reproduction technique
Methods of placing the front teeth on the mandible.
Lesson 2. Occlusal concept in complete denture: another approach than the classic way
Occlusal plane and occlusal curves
The Law of the Tangent
The technique of transferring the radius of the curve of Spee to the articulator
The curve of Spee: methods of creation
Placement of teeth on the mandible by the template method
The concept of Monson spheres
Principles of setting the lower lateral teeth
The concept of guides: principles
Characteristics of balanced occlusion
Creation of a canine guidance with complete adentia
The concept of disocclusion/reocclusion
Articulator programming: technique
Protocols of aesthetic setting of teeth
The technique of creating a protrusion guide and retroactive control
Occlusogram: contact monitoring
Repeated plastering of prostheses: purpose and technique
Digital methods of manufacturing removable prostheses.
Lesson 3. Individual dentures
Basics of dentures:
Individual tray
Lightcuring acrylic
Adhesive
Material for border
Impression materials
Topper.
Oral anatomy features
Facebow: importance, technique of use
Artificial teeth: structure, size, color, choise depending on face and nose form
Posture and Occlusion
Key points, lines and angles for teeth placement
Artificial gum features
Full video protocol of denture creating
Fonetic aspects: FSO-test.
Lesson 4. Suction in a lower denture: SEMCD technique. Part 1
Suction: definition, ways to achieve
Biofunctional Prosthetic System (BPS)
Suction Effective Mandibular Complete Denture (SEMCD) technique
Factors influencing the success of prosthetics
Maxillary denture suction mechanism
Mandibular denture suction mechanism
Conventional denture vs Suction denture
Perform diagnostic patient evaluation
Clinical and laboratory steps of denture creating
Compare open mouth versus closed mouth preliminary impressions
Impressions materials
Clinical cases.
Lesson 5. Suction in a lower denture: SEMCD technique. Part 2
Combination of BPS and mandibular suction mechanism
New patient examination
Final impression with Gnatometer M custom trays
Gnatometer requirements
Create and articulate final denture models
Maxillary mouth movements for creat denture seal
Mandibular mouth movements for creat denture seal
Maxillary impressions video protocol
Mandibular impressions video protocol
Denture reline steps
Apply BPS and SEMCD to implant-retained overdentures.
Lesson 6. SEMCD (Suction Effective Mandibular Complete Denture) technology and VERTYSYSTEM
The goals of edentulous rehabilitation and various types of rehabilitation
Preliminary impressions: significance and techniques
Techniques for taking high-quality impressions
Design and preparation of individual trays
Wax preparation for impression taking
Anatomical landmarks defining the borders of individual trays
Requirements for a high-quality functional impression
Trays for functional impressions
Video demonstration of creating an individual tray:
creating a gypsum model
baseplate design
trimming the baseplate edges
creating rigid occlusal templates.
Video demonstration of creating a master model and assembly the model in an articulator
Key concepts of occlusion depending on the type of rehabilitation
Establishing the occlusal plane and anatomical wax modeling
Protocols for manufacturing prostheses using the VERTYSYSTEM
Final stage, inspection, and polishing of the dentures.
Lesson 7. The biomimetic approach to complete dentures: analog and digital workflows
Utilizing intraoral scanner in complete immediate dentures
Transformation of a removable dentures into a hybrid one with implant support: B.A.R.I. method
Registration of implant position using analog and digital methods
The CAD/CAM denture
Guided surgery planning using information obtained from a full removable dentures
Hybrid prosthesis: indications, determination, manufacturing
Cross-mounting technique: advantages and technique;
Single-model technique
The digital cross-mounting: how to transfer all prosthetic coordinates from temporary to final restoration.
