REMOVEABLE PROS Flashcards
What are the reasons for rendering a patient edentulous?
- Caries
- Periodontal disease
- Appearance
- Malocclusion
- Overload of opposing jaw, especially edentulous lower
- Patients request
Why is root caries more prevalent in the elderly?
- Gingival recession (shrinks as you get older)
- Medication that reduces salivary flow
What are the contraindications for rendering a patient edentulous?
- Masticatory efficiency reduced
- Alveolar resorption
- Muscular skills required to manage f/f (special difficulty in the elderly)
- Medical conditions
An alternative to rendering a patient edentulous, would be to have overdentures, what are the benefits of opting for overdentures?
- Retain some roots and restore to be used to support dentures.
- Preserve alveolar bone
- Retain proprioception
What are the advantages of an immediate replacement denture?
- Maintain pre-extraction information
- Tooth mould, shade, arrangement
- OVD
- Appearance
- Continuity of denture wearing
- Protect initial bloodclot
What do you need to make aware to the patient in reference to financial implication?
That the denture will become loose and will require replacement overtime.
What do you need to consider before preparing a patient for immediate replacement dentures?
- Take molars out first and allow healing
- Number of teeth to be replaced
- Risk of haemorrhage
- Post extraction swelling
- How much LA you have to administer.
- Healed areas
How many designs are available for immediate replacement dentures?
3
What are the three flange designs available?
- Flanged
- Part flanged
- Open face
In some situations, it is not possible to put a full flange on the denture at all, that maybe due to what?
- undercut in the buccal sulcus
- When the bone is particularly bony
This flange design supports, retention, undercuts, and aesthetics, which flange design is this?
Flanged
In some instances, the denture will not fit over the alveolar ridge, thus opting for a denture that sits over it, with the consequence of having sections of the denture that presents itself for food packing and a plaque trap. What design would you opt for instead of this?
Part flange or open face denture.
What must you consider when making an open face flange design, in reference to a gap forming?
Resorption of ridge will lead to gap between denture and ride.
How long should the dentures be kept in for post extraction?
24 hours
When you remove the dentures after 24 hours, after an extraction has been completed and IRs has been placed, what are you looking for?
Examine mouth for healthy clots and identify any areas of inflammation.
What would be the after 24-hour post op instructions after IRs has been placed?
Advise warm saline mouthwash and patient to remove denture after mealtimes, to rinse and clean denture with soft toothbrush and soapy water.
If a 24-hour review is not possible after an IRs, what must you ensure?
Ensure patient gas post op instructions and details of how to make contact.
What is the definition of retention in relation to dentures?
Resistance of a denture to VERTICAL movement away from the tissues.
What is the definition of stability in relation to dentures?
The resistance of a denture to displacement by functional forces (more lateral direction).
What are the four displacive forces that can make the denture move
- Gravity
- Muscle activity
- Sticky foods
- Function
Which denture would gravity have an affect on?
Upper denture, you would try to make the upper denture as light as possible to minimise this.
Gravity would have a greater force on an acrylic or cobalt chromium upper denture?
Cobalt chromium.
When muscles are activated during smiling or speaking, what does it to the oral cavity?
It changes the shape, muscles are very strong and can exert a huge force when they are active, this can result in the displacement of dentures both upper and lower.
How is interfacial surface tension created?
When there is a thin layer of fluid present between two parallel planes of rigid material.
Why must the material of the denture allow for it to get wet?
The ability of the denture material to allow fluid to wet the rigid material, allows for the creation of interfacial surface tension.
The pure water on the acrylic material will cause droplets of water on the material and will not form an interfacial surface tension, what must be created first?
A pellicle layer must be created first and this is created by saliva, saliva would coat the acrylic denture. Once the acrylic is coated, the acrylic can be wetted much better.
Saliva consists of two components, what are they?
Mucous and serous fluid.
Serous (watery saliva) has a greater ability to create interfacial surface tension than thick mucous saliva, true or false?
True.
What is interfacial viscous tension?
The force holding two parallel plates together that is due to the viscosity of the interposed liquid (saliva).
Viscosity refers to the resistance to flow, what does low viscosity mean?
Low viscosity means that it is easy to flow.
What would cause the viscous tension to increase?
As the viscosity of the liquid decreases
Viscous force falls rapidly as the thickness of the liquid increases or decreases?
Increases
What is required for the optimum adaptation between denture and mucosa?
Need good quality saliva (salivary film).
Interfacial viscous tension is more critical to maxillary or mandibular dentures?
Maxillary
What Is the definition of adhesion in relation to dentures?
The physical attraction of unlike molecules for each other.
What is the adhesion relationship in dentures?
Saliva – mucous membrane and saliva – denture base
How do you maximise adhesion in dentures?
The bigger the area that is covered by denture, the bigger the adhesive force can be.
What is cohesion?
The physical attraction between similar molecules (salivary film)
Atmospheric pressure is present in the importance of a border seal, seals are only really achievable in maxillary or mandibular
MAXILALRY
To achieve optimum retention and stability with complete dentures we need to consider the three surfaces of the dentures, what are these surfaces?
- Fitting (basal) surfaces
- Polished surfaces
- Occlusal surfaces
Loss of alveolar bone height is greater in the mandible or maxilla?
Mandible