A three-appointment alternative treatment protocol for fabricating an implant-supported milled bar overdenture.
This article describes an alternative impression technique for the fabrication of an implant-supported bar overdenture using the duplicated satisfactory interim denture as a custom tray for the implant-level impression. The primary advantage of this technique is that all the information needed for the definitive prosthesis fabrication is obtained from the interim denture and then transferred to the laboratory in a single appointment. However, this technique may be contraindicated for severely misaligned implants that require extensive reduction of the duplicated denture.
Department of Oral Health and Rehabilitation, School of Dentistry, University of Louisville, KY 40202, USA. WeiShao.Lin@Louisville.edu
Wei-Shao
WS
Lin
Erdem
E
Ozdemir
Dean
D
Morton
D000180:Acrylic Resins / Q000737:chemistry; D002985:Clinical Protocols; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D059605:Dental Implant-Abutment Design; D015921:Dental Implants; D003760:Dental Impression Materials / Q000737:chemistry; D003761:Dental Impression Technique / Q000295:instrumentation; D003764:Dental Materials / Q000737:chemistry; D019094:Dental Prosthesis, Implant-Supported; D003819:Denture Bases; D003779:Denture Design; D003781:Denture Retention / Q000295:instrumentation*; D003825:Denture, Complete, Immediate; D003828:Denture, Overlay; D006801:Humans; D007574:Jaw Relation Record; D011145:Polyvinyls / Q000737:chemistry; D012833:Siloxanes / Q000737:chemistry; D013997:Time Factors; D014093:Tooth, Artificial
D000180:Acrylic Resins; D015921:Dental Implants; D003760:Dental Impression Materials; D003764:Dental Materials; D011145:Polyvinyls; D012833:Siloxanes; C034183:vinyl polysiloxane