Dentures Flashcards
Describe Non-Soluble Denture Adhesives…
- Pads and wafers
- Sodium alginate, ethylene oxide polymer
What are some different materials for final impressions for dentures?
- Plaster
- ZOE
- Polysulfide
- Silicones
- Polyether
- Waxes
What are some Advantages of Immediate Complete Dentures?
- Prevent embarrassment
- Promote health
- Provide optimal esthetics
- Provide guide for occluding vertical dimension
- Promote healing
- Promote better ridge form
- Prevent collapse of facial musculature
- Hasten patient adaptation
To increase denture support, would you want distribution of applied forces over wide or short area?
What does this help with?
- For support, you want distribution of applied forces over as wide an area as possible
- Helps with ridge preservation, prosthesis stability, and retention
What is the purpose of a Post Palatal Seal?
- Close tissue contact during speech and swallowing
- Seal adaptation/increased retention
- Compensate for polymerization shrinkage
- “Sunken” border less conspicuous to tongue
- Less gagging
- Cross sectional strength
What are 3 Overdenture Types?
- Immediate
- Transitional
- Remote
What is the prevalence of Combination Syndrome among denture patients?
24%
Describe the patient spectrum regading youth and elderly for neuromuscular control…
What 5 things contribute to good denture stability?
- Good retention
- Non-interfering occlusion
- Prper tooth arrangement
- Proper tooth form and contour of polished surface
- Good control and coordination of the patient’s musculature
Regarding the Neutrocentric Technique, what is the Condylar Inclination, Incisal Guidance, and Tooth Form set at?
0°
What are the 2 types of Lingualized Articulation?
- Balanced concept
- Nonbalanced concept
Which ridge experiences more loss of bone in denture patients, mandible or maxilla?
Mandible
4x greater loss of bone over first seven years
What are 2 components of Chemically Activated Resins?
- Liquid: Methylmethacrylate + chemical activator (tertiary amine)
- Powder: prepolymerized spheres of polymethylmethacrylate + benzoyl peroxide (initiator)
What do you do if the posterior palatal seal is too short?
- Define border and PPS
- Reline
- Chemical cure addition
What are some advanced treatment options for edentulous patients?
What is a Soft Liner?
A liner, whether hard or soft, should be used as a simple tool to improve clinically acceptable prostheses
What are some advantages of Overdentures?
- Stable record bases
- Reversible
- Convertible
- Prevent Combination Syndrome
- Decreased tissue trauma
How do you record the Neutrocentric Technique?
- No facebow transfer
- No protrusive or lateral records
- Just OVD + CR
During a chairside remount for a balanced occlusal scheme, what do you adjust regarding Protrusive Movements?
- Adjust M inclines of mandibular cusps and D inclines of max cusps
- Centric: re-adjust as needed
What is the rationale for Nonanatomic Occlusion?
- Nonanatomic teeth set with a compensating curve
- Balance provided by anterior-posterior and lateral curves
- Rationale is to eliminate lateral forces and preserve residual ridges
What are some important anatomical landmarks for a maxillary denture?
- Hamular notch: between pterygoid hamulus and tuberosity
- Tuberosity will resist movement in anterior direction
- Posterior border of denture
- Post palatal seal
Describe Light-Activated Denture Base Resins…
- Urethane dimethacrylate matrix
- Micro fine silica
- High MW acrylic resin monomers
- Filler: acrylic resin beads
- Activator: visible light
- Initiator: comphoroquinone
- High-intensity visible light cure
What is a Remote Overdenture?
What is the position of the posterior teeth in the Neutrocentric Concept (Monoplane)?
Over the residual ridge as far lingually as possible
What are some disadvanges to the anatomic scheme?
- Precise records required
- Greater lateral forces on inclines
- Technically demanding, results short lived
- More difficult in class II, III, and crossbite situations
What are some advantages to the anatomic scheme?
- Esthetics
- Bolus penetration
- Decreased vertical stresses
- Increased denture stability in parafunctional movements
What are some Disadvantages of Immediate Complete Dentures?
- Increased complexity
- Limited evaluation of trial denture
- Increased patient discomfort
- Increased maintenance
- Increased patient visits
- Increased treatment cost
What is the rationale for the Anatomic Scheme?
- Better chewing efficiency
- Better stability of articulation
What are some clinical uses for tissue conditioners?
- Tissue conditioning before final impression (change every 3 days)
- Diagnostic relining
- Impression material
- Immediate complete denture treatment
- Post surgical and during implant therapy
What factors are involved in denture retention?
- Adhesion
- Cohesion
- Interfacial viscous tension
- Capillary attraction
- Oral and facial musculature
- Atmospheric pressure and peripheral seal
- Mechanical locking
- Gravity
- Occlusion
What is the Form of teeth in the Neutrocentric Concept (Monoplane)?
Flat teeth with no deflecting inclines
What are 3 techniques for denture base resins?
- Compression flask
- Injection-molding
- Pour techniques
During a chairside remount for a balanced occlusal scheme, what do you adjust regarding Working Cusps?
- Adjust using BULL Rule (buccal UPPER, and lingual LOWER)
What are 4 things you can use to determine vertical dimension?
- Physiologic rest
- Phonetics and esthetics
- PAtient-reported perception of comfort
- Closest speaking space
What are some surgical treatments you can provide to enahance denture support?
- Placement of osseointegrated implants
- Hyperplastic tissue, epulis fissuratum, and papillomatosis
- Frenular attachments and pendulous tuberosity
- Bony prominences, tori
- Discrepancies in jaw size
- Pressure on mental foramen
What angles are set for teeth in Nonanatomic Occlusion?
- Teeth with cuspal inclination of 0-19°
- Anatoline: 10°
- Monoline: 0°
How much monomer is left in a processed denture?
- Chemically acticated resin: 3-5% residual monomer
- Heat acticated resins 0.2-0.5% residual monomer
During the first year of dentures, how many mm of bone heigh is lost during the first year after extractions for immediate dentures?
4 mm
Describe the Occlusal Spectrum of denture teeth arrangements?
What are some advantages of Lingualized Articulation?
- Esthetics
- Better bolus penetration
- Less vertical force
- Simple technique
- Parafunctional stability with balanced arrangement
- Reduced lateral forces
- Easier to adjust
- Can be used in Class II, III, and crossbite situations
What is a pendulous tuberosity?
Enlarged maxillary tuberosity, may need surgical excision
What are some Disadvantages of the Neutrocentric Concept?
- Less esthetic
- May not be compatible with tongue, oral function
- Poor bolus penetration
- Class II patients may function forward of CR
- Encourages lateral chewing component
What degrees are teeth setup regarding the Anatomic Scheme?
30° - 45°
What are some contraindications for denture adhesives?
- Ill-fitting dentures
- Fractured prosthesis
- Obvious pathology or tissue hyperplasia