Affordable Dentures

Affordable Cantilever Dental Bridge

Affordable Dentures — Sat, 05 May 2012 10:32:51 +0000

A cantilever bridge provides support for the pontic at one end only. The pontic may be attached to a single retainer or to two or more retainers splinted together, but has no connection at the other end of the pontic. It is the most conservative design. If one abutment is used there is no need [...]

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Fixed Partial Denture: Soft Tissue Management

Affordable Dentures — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 04:40:13 +0000

Soft tissue management is important in making accurate impression. Part of soft tissue management is tissue displacement procedure, which is done to expose crown margins. There are many techniques to retract soft tissue, one good example is Double Cord Technique. Double Cord Technique (Two Cord Technique) First cord controls seepage and bleeding. It remains in [...]

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Fixed Partial Denture in Shortened Dental Arch

Affordable Dentures — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 16:50:13 +0000

The shortened dental arch is defined as the functional, aesthetic, and natural dentition of no more than twenty teeth with an intact anterior region but a reduced number of occluding pairs of posterior teeth. A SHORTENED DENTAL arch (SDA) as described by Kayser is an arch within a dentition in which most, if not all, [...]

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Acrylic Removable Partial Denture

Affordable Dentures — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:27:55 +0000

Removable Acrylic Partial Denture is a mucosa borne denture that conforms to a specific design to ensure gingival health. This type of RPD is indicated to replace missing teeth for short period of time. Is is also constructed to condition the patient for wearing a complete denture when the total loss of teeth is inevitable. [...]

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Zirconia Fixed Dental Bridge

Affordable Dentures — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:28:06 +0000

All ceramic fixed partial dentures on full coverage abutments offer the follwing benefits: 1. Corrosion problems are avoided. 2. They have good esthetic properties. 3. Natural looking restorative material color. 4. Zirconia FPDs have very low temperature conduction. Zirconia fixed bridges disadvantages include: 1. High fabrication costs. 2. Long processing times, intrument wear and tear. [...]

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Complete Dentures

Affordable Dentures — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:08:04 +0000

Conventional complete dentures are made by making impressions of the upper and lower denture bearing tissues. They are constructed using identifiable anatomical structures and relationships. The overall contruction of convention CD requires step by step prosthodontic procedure to provide optimal retention and stability. The dentist has control of the changes that are required. There is [...]

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Lower Complete Denture Prosthesis

Affordable Dentures — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:11:09 +0000

A Complete Denture for a fully edentulous lower jaw. The patient is 55 years old, female, in good health. Her four incisors were the the last teeth extracted. Lower Complete Denture Prosthesis is a post from: Affordable Dentures

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Affordable Fixed Prostheses

Affordable Dentures — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 23:35:09 +0000

For this case the missing teeth are upper first molar, upper second premolar and upper first premolar. A fixed partial denture was fabricated to replace the missing teeth. The cuspid and second molar were used as abutments. They were prepared, 2 mm reduction with shoulder margin on the labial and chamfer on the lingual. Porcelain [...]

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Conventional Metal Ceramic Fixed Partial Denture

Affordable Dentures — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 11:43:43 +0000

The most popular choice for fixed partial dentures remains to be the metal ceramic restorations. This is attributed to natural looking ceramic material supported with a high strength of metal alloy. Added to this property is its ease of fabrication and affordable pricing. However they are now being challenged by metal free ceramic restorations, specifically [...]

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TMD in Denture Treatment

Affordable Dentures — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:57:09 +0000

Involvement of TMD in prosthodontics is oftentimes ignored. Denture treatment and other dental management usually concentrate on dentition and the surrounding structure setting aside the importance of temporo mandibular joint. We can not get away from the fact that the dental structure is at the interior segment of the mandible and the joint is at [...]

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