title: Digital immediate dentures treatment: A clinical report of two patients.
abstract: The use of computer-aided engineering (CAE) and computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD-CAM) technology to fabricate complete dentures was introduced in 2011. Clinical procedures for digital immediate dentures can be identical to those for conventional immediate dentures and can be simplified by leaving all remaining dentition until the time of extraction and denture placement. Through the digital process, a single digital design and a definitive digital record are created which can be used to fabricate the immediate digital denture and surgical reduction guide for alveoloplasty. Digital immediate dentures can be relined using the same process as for conventional dentures. The definitive digital dentures can be fabricated with a reline impression and new centric relation record, using the existing digital immediate denture without additional clinical procedures. Providing patients with digital immediate dentures is a viable trend.
authors.affiliation: Associate Professor, Department of Restorative Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Ala. Electronic address: neumeier@uab.edu.
authors.forename: Toni Tien
authors.initials: TT
authors.lastname: Neumeier
authors.affiliation: Associate Professor, Department of Health Informatics and Information Management, College of Health Sciences, Samford University, Birmingham, Ala.
authors.forename: Harold
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Neumeier
mesh_terms: D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D003761:Dental Impression Technique; D003779:Denture Design / Q000379:methods*; D003824:Denture, Complete; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011862:Radiography, Panoramic