Realeff – Relevance in complete dentures

Complete dentures rest on basal seat area which is primarily oral mucosa and residual alveolar ridge .The oral mucosa on which complete dentures are fabricated is displacable and compressible. This factor was described by Hanau as ‘resiliency and like effect’, Realeff Effect. Realeff plays an important role In all the steps of compete denture fabrication as in primary impression , border moulding , final impression , jaw relation , try –in procedure and remount and follow up. Adequate measures taken during fabrication, can utilize this effect for construction of well fitted dentures .Hence this review study has been done in which the details of all the clinical procedures like use of adequate impression materials, techniques, jaw relation procedures, selective grinding , relining and rebasing which are important for utilization of realeff effect in dentures are mentioned in detail , thereby helping the operator to fabricate dentures with long term function and efficiency .