TOPIC: SURGICAL AND PROSTHETIC PHASE 🎯 KEY POINTS: 🔹In implant-retained overdenture for completely edentulous patient, balanced occlusion or lingualized occlusion is given. 🔹In full fixed arch implant-supported bridges, there should be simultaneous contact on the anterior and posterior teeth in centric relation with anterior group function and multiple contacts in eccentric jaw movements. 🔹Guided bone […]
TOPIC: OSSEOINTEGRATION AND MATERIALS 🎯 KEY FACTS 🔹The term osseointegration was coined by P.I. Branemark in 1977. 🔹Minimum period required for osseointegration of the implants in the maxilla is 6 months and for mandible is 4 months. 🔹Implants should be placed after 16 years of age in a young patient once the alveolar growth is […]
TOPIC: Introduction, Diagnosis and Treatment Planning 🎯 KEY POINTS: 🔹Dahl of Germany introduced the mucosal inserts or button implants for maxilla in 1940. 🔹Dahl also conceived the concept of the subperiosteal implants. 🔹Goldberg and Gershkoff made subperiosteal implant with vitallium in 1948. 🔹Sollier, Chercheve and Small introduced the transosteal implant in 1953. 🔹L.I. Linkow in […]
TOPIC: MAXILLOFACIAL DEFECTS AND PROSTHESIS 🎯 KEY POINTS: 🔹Rapid prototyping technology used in maxillofacial prosthodontics is used to create three-dimensional models from a three-dimensional representation (CT scan or MRI). 🔹Essig splint is used to stabilize fractured or repositioned teeth and the involved alveolar bone. 🔹Inflatable balloon obturators were first described by K.W. Coffey in 1984. […]
TOPIC: INTRODUCTION OF MAXILLOFACIAL PROSTHODONTICS 🎯 KEY POINTS: 🔹Ambroise Pare (1517–1590) was first to close palatal perforations. 🔹Tycho Brahe (1546–1601) was famous Danish astronomer who made an artificial nose of gold and silver. 🔹First artificial eye was made of glass in 1579 in Venice. 🔹Pierre Fauchard (1728), considered as the father of modern dentistry, used […]
TOPIC: FINISHING AND CEMENTATION 🎯 KEY POINTS: 🔹In Chronic Xerostomic patient, cervical caries and periodontitis are prime reasons for FPD failure. 🔹Beilby layer is a microscopic surface layer produced during polishing of gold crowns. 🔹Metamerism is a phenomenon of an object appearing of different colours when viewed under different light source. 🔹The use of dissimilar […]
TOPIC: INSERTION, RELINING AND REBASING 🎯 KEY POINTS: 🔹Lost wax technique was first used in casting of alloys by W.H. Taggart (1906). 🔹Gypsum-bonded investment material is used for casting gold alloys. 🔹Pickling is a method of cleaning gold casting by hot acid solution for several minutes. 🔹Phosphate-bonded investment is used for casting metal–ceramic alloys having […]
TOPIC: OCCLUSION RELATIONSHIP 🎯 KEY POINTS 🔹Group function is characterized by contact of all teeth on the working side and no contact on the balancing side during lateral excursions. 🔹Maximum limit of transverse hinge axis movement is 18–22 mm. 🔹Balanced occlusion is based on three classic theories of occlusion: Bonwill’s three points of occlusal balance, […]
TOPIC: PROVISIONAL RESTORATION 🎯 KEY POINTS: 🔹Indirect technique is preferred over direct technique to fabricate provisional restoration for its accuracy and protection of pulp, in case acrylic resin is used. 🔹Prefabricated polycarbonate crowns are used on prepared single anterior tooth. 🔹Bis-acryl composite resin should not be used in long-span bridges, as these are brittle in […]
TOPIC: IMPRESSIONS IN FIXED PARTIAL DENTURE 🎯 KEY POINTS: 🔸Electrosurgical procedure for impression making is contraindicated in patients with pacemakers. 🔸Epinephrine should be avoided in patients suffering from hypertension or cardiovascular disease, as it increases the heart rate and blood pressure. 🔸Rubber dam should not be used when impression is made with polyvinyl siloxane, as […]
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