A CAD/CAM system for removable denture. Part I: Fabrication of complete dentures.
This study investigated the development of a computer-aided system for designing and fabricating removable complete dentures. The anatomical and morphological information of edentulous residual ridges and surrounding tissues were obtained from maxillomandibular double impressions mounted on a high-speed, three-dimensional laser scanner. Artificial tooth arrangements, occlusion, the outline of polished surface, and denture border location were developed on a work station using a knowledge data base. Established three-dimensional data were transferred into a three-dimensional, laser lithography machine, and a complete denture was fabricated from photopolymerized resin composite material.
Maeda
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Department of Removable Prosthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Osaka University, Japan.
Minoura
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Tsutsumi
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Okada
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M
Nokubi
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T
D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D003779:Denture Design / Q000379:methods*; D003824:Denture, Complete; D006801:Humans