title: General considerations prior to relining of complete dentures.
abstract: eneral considerations necessary to determine whether a complete denture reline should be attempted or a new denture constructed have been presented. Specific evaluation procedures, including the examination and diagnosis of the patient and the complete denture(s) along with a checklist of complicating factors, have been discussed. Hickey and Zarb have said: "The complicated [nature] of the conditions to be corrected makes [reline] procedures not the simple operations many patients and dentists think they are." The authors emphatically agree.
mesh_terms: D003823:Denture Rebasing; D003781:Denture Retention; D003824:Denture, Complete; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D009066:Mouth, Edentulous / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires