Bite - Management Considerations for the Restorative Dentist RESTORATIVE

of the most critical aspects of any restorative dental procedure. The bite registration is a key component in recording intraoral relationships for effective reconstruction of a single prepared tooth, a quadrant of prepared teeth, or a full arch of teeth prepared for restorative aesthetic reconstruction. Bite registrations are used to help orient the maxillary and mandibular relationship during the mounting of study models, provisional restorations, removable appliance construction, and restorative dentistry. The bite registration or interocclusal record can be used for diagnostic mountings in a habitual accommodated centric position or in a physiologic maxillo-mandibular relationship to assess jaw relationships. The bite registration can assist the clinician and laboratory technician to better understand pathologic and physiologic relationships that exist when diagnostically analyzing the mounted study cast. The bite registration or interocclusal bite record is also used for treatment purposes. A bite registration should be easily and precisely transferred to stone models without rocking or flexing in order to reproduce an accurate, yet stable upper and lower jaw relationship.