Category Archives: Complete Dentures

Complete Denture: Face Bow Transfer

Dental materials and instruments required for Face Bow Transfer for complete denture. 1. ear bow 2. ear bow fork 3. maxillary master cast 4. telescoping cast support 5. wax spatula 6. sticky wax 7. mixing bowl

Complete Denture: Mounting the Casts

Dental materials and instruments required for mounting the casts onto articulator for complete denture. 1. plaster bowl 2. spatula 3. white plaster 4. plaster knife 5. pink wax 6. wax knife 7. face bow with indexed recording plates 8. casts 9. condylator

Complete Denture: Fabricating the Occlusion Rim

Dental materials and instruments required to fabricate record base and wax occlusion rim for complete denture. 1. maxillary and mandibular shellac baseplates. 2. brass wire 15 gauge 3. pink baseplate wax 4. coping saw 5. wax knife 6. staright handpiece 7. carbide acrylic trimming bur

Complete Denture: Maxillimandibular Relations Record

Dental materials and instruments required in recording maxillomandibular for complete denture. 1. Gerber registration set. 2. 2 parallel straightedges 3. Wax knife. 4. Alcohol torch. 5. Felt tip pen 6. Protractor 7. Impression plaster 8. Cold water

Complete Denture: Master Cast

Dental materials and instruments required in master casts making for complete denture. 1. dental stone 2. mixing bowl 3. spatula 4. plaster knife 5. wax knife 6 bead wax 7. ice water

Complete Denture: Final Impression of a Flabby Ridge

Dental materials and instruments required in final impression making of a flabby ridge for complete denture. 1. impression plaster 2. mixing bowl 3. spatula 4. adhesive tape 5. scissors 6. brush 7. double-ended spatula

Complete Denture: Final Impression

Dental materials and instruments required in final impression making for complete denture. 1. custom tray 2. mixing pad 3. rubber impression material 4. modeling compound stick 5. torch 6. cold water 7. spatulas 8. petroleum jelly 9. straight low speed handpiece 10. carbide acrylic trimming burs

Complete Denture: Custom Tray Fabrication

Dental materials and instruments required in fabricating custom impression tray for complete denture. 1. visible light polymerizing acrylic resin wafer (VLC wafer). 2. pink wax 3. wax knife 4. separating fluid 5. small brush 6. straight low speed handpiece 7. carbide acrylic trimming burs 8. scalpel

Complete Denture: Preliminary Impression Armamentarium

Dental materials and instruments required for complete denture preliminary impression procedure using impression compound. 1. metal stock tray 2. thermoplastic impression compound 3. warm water (approximately 40 C 4. ice water 5. plaster cast scissor

Impression Procedures

Mucostatic are impressions that record the tissues with minimum displacement. Mucodisplacive are impressions that displace the tissues. The choice is made by the dentist on the basis of oral conditions, concept of the function of the tissues surrounding the denture and ability to handle the available impression materials.