title: [The reproducibility of the abutment angle recording in the remounting of complete dentures].
abstract: Upon insertion, 40 newly made full dentures could be remounted three times in succession by each of two therapists by means of the intraoral central bearing point method. The records were measured electronically and by computer in a special measuring articulator in the right and left condylar area. The shift of the condylar spheres in the three different records was smaller than about 0.3 +/- 0.2 mm in all three spatial directions. From this we calculated the movement of the spheres in space to be about 0.5 +/- 0.3 mm. The results of our random samples were independent of the therapist, the patients' age or sex, the period for which the patients had been edentulous, the sliding of the dental prostheses on the tegmentum or the anatomical shape of the alveolar ridges.
authors.affiliation: Poliklinik für Zahnärztliche Prothetik, Universität Bonn.
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Utz
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bernard
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Wegmann
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Huntebrinker
mesh_terms: D000044:Dental Abutments; D003725:Dental Articulators; D003768:Dental Occlusion, Centric; D003819:Denture Bases; D003780:Denture Repair; D003824:Denture, Complete; D006801:Humans; D008335:Mandibular Condyle; D015203:Reproducibility of Results