title: Edentulous gnathologic recordings utilizing "vacustatics".
abstract: Securing clutches to edentulous ridges by vacustatics for a pantographic recording is useful for effecting a desirable result. This technique is a possible answer for those edentulous patients with occlusal problems who have never known comfort while wearing dentures. A procedure has been described utilizing a modification of the vacustatic technique to obtain accurate pantographic recordings on edentulous patients. These recordings enable the dentist to develop a gnathologic-oriented occlusion for the problem denture patient in an attempt to eliminate destructive loading forces on the residual ridges.
mesh_terms: D003766:Dental Occlusion; D003779:Denture Design; D003824:Denture, Complete; D006801:Humans; D007574:Jaw Relation Record; D009066:Mouth, Edentulous; D011476:Prosthodontics / Q000379:methods*