Positioning handles and occlusal locks have evolved as improvements to the Teeth-in-a-Day protocol. These improvements have enabled a more accurate alignment of the removable dental prosthesis during the conversion prosthesis technique. These improvements can be easily incorporated through computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing digital denture fabrication process.

Fixed implant-supported prosthesis for the edentulous maxilla has gained tremendous popularity over the years. Multiple prosthetic designs have been introduced in order to accommodate a gamut of clinical situations. Irrespective of the design, it is paramount that the esthetics imparted by the prosthesis be uncompromised. Though esthetics is subjective, a common ground exists where all its fund...

* graduated of Oral Prosthesis and implantology Department, División de estudios de Posgrado e investigación, Facultad de Odontología de la UNAM. § Professor, Dental Materials laboratory, División de estudios de Posgrado e investigación, Facultad de Odontología de la UNAM. ii Professor, Oral Prosthesis and implantology Department, División de estudios de Postgrado e investigación, Facultad de O...

Placement of dental implants may improve the retention and stability of complete dentures in edentulous patients. Treatment costs, however, substantially increase with implant treatment. We therefore performed a stochastic cost-effectiveness analysis, comparing implant-supported over-denture prostheses (4 implants), implant-retained overdentures (2 implants), and complete dentures, from the pat...

Fixed dental prosthesis success requires appropriate impression taking of the prepared finish line. This is critical in either tooth supported fixed prosthesis (crown and bridge) or implant supported fixed prosthesis (solid abutment). If the prepared finish line is adjacent to the gingival sulcus, gingival retraction techniques should be used to decrease the marginal discrepancy among the resto...

Full arch implant-supported prostheses following Branemark protocol are widely used for oral rehabilitation of people with edentulous jaws and associated to the full upper conventional prosthesis. Their indication requires that the dental surgeon be prepared for prosthetic-surgical approach and planning. Therefore, this work aims to present the planning and execution of a lower arch implant-sup...

The disfigurement resulting from loss of an eye can cause significant psychological as well as social consequences for both the patient and family. Ambroise Pare, a French surgeon-dentist, is considered the pioneer of modern artificial eyes. In 1944 Murphy and Nirronen fabricated physiologic ocular prosthesis in dental corps of US Navy [1]. An ocular prosthesis does not provide vision; but give...