Prosthetic Techniques

At the end of this course, students should be able to: 1. describe the laboratory steps involved in full denture construction; 2. enumerate the principles of support, retention, stability, aesthetics and preservation of healthy tissue; 3. apply knowledge from the study of material science in the manipulation of materials for making prosthesis; 229 4. explain retention stability and support in complete dentures; and 5. develop objective means of judging aesthetics in complete dentures.

Retention, stability and support. Aesthetics and preservation of residual structure, parts and surfaces and how its form achieves the goals of fabrication. Bite registration, the scope of prosthetic dentistry and introduction to the dental laboratory, goals of complete denture fabrication, the complete denture, concept of occlusion in complete dentures. Impressions, record blocks and their significance. Face-bows, articulators, and transfer of records to articulators, setting teeth and the trial appointment, denture processing.