Category: Prosthodontics

TOPIC: WAX TRY-IN AND LABORATORY PROCEDURES 🎯 KEY FACTS 🔹Shim stock is a thin strip of 8–12 microns used to identify the presence or absence of occlusal or proximal contact. 🔹Errors in mounting casts on the articulator are detected when the centric relation is used as a horizontal reference position. 🔹Mandibular equilibration is the condition […]

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TOPIC: CONCEPT OF OCCLUSION 🎯 KEY FACTS 🔹Farrar appliance is a type of occlusal device which is used to position the mandible anteriorly to treat temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disk disorders. 🔹Condylar guidance of the patient is determined by a protrusive record. 🔹 ‘S’ shaped path of the glenoid fossa determines the path of movement of […]

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TOPIC: SELECTION AND ARRANGEMENT OF TEETH 🎯 KEY FACTS 🔹Denture aesthetics is defined as ‘the effect produced by a dental prosthesis that affects the beauty and attractiveness of the person’.  🔹Space of Donders is the space that lies above the dorsum of the tongue and below the hard and soft palates when the mandible and […]

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TOPIC : MAXILLOMANDIBULAR RELATIONSHIP 🎯 KEY FACTS 🔹Camper’s line is the line joining the inferior border of the ala of the nose to the superior border of the tragus. Ideally, the Camper’s plane is considered to be parallel to the occlusal plane. 🔹Christensen’s phenomenon is the space that occurs between the occlusal surfaces during mandibular […]

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   TOPIC: ARTICULATORS AND FACEBOWS 🎯 KEY FACTS 🔹Arcon Articulators contain the condylar guidance within the upper member and the condylar elements within the lower member. 🔹Functional Articulation is the occlusal contact of the maxillary and mandibular teeth during mastication and deglutition. 🔹Bennett Angle is formed between the sagittal plane and the orbital path (horizontal […]

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TOPIC: IMPRESSIONS IN COMPLETE DENTURES 🎯 KEY POINTS : 🔹 Sublingual crescent is the crescent-shaped area on the anterior floor of the mouth formed by the lingual wall of the mandible and the adjacent sublingual fold. It is the area of the anterior alveololingual sulcus. 🔹 Retromolar pad consists of glandular tissues and the fibres […]

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TOPIC: MOUTH PREPARATION OF COMPLETE DENTURE PATIENTS 🎯 KEY FACTS : 🔹Epulis fissuratum is caused due to overextension of the labial flanges. 🔹Generalized soreness of the denture-bearing area in a new denture wearer is due to increased vertical dimension. 🔹Mandibular tori are most commonly located lingual to the premolar region. 🔹Maxillary tori are most commonly […]

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TOPIC: DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT PLANNING FOR EDENTULOUS PATIENTS 🎯 KEY FACTS  🔹 Posterior Palatal Seal area is used to complete the peripheral valve seal across the distal border of the denture. 🔹 Abfraction is the pathologic loss of hard tooth substance caused by biomechanical loading forces. 🔹 Angular Cheilitis is the inflammation of the angles […]

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TOPIC: INTRODUCTION TO EDENTULOUS STATE 🎯 KEY POINTS 🔹 Complete Denture Prosthodontics deals with replacement of all the natural teeth with artificial substitutes. 🔹Somatoprosthetics is the art and science of prosthetic replacement of the external parts of the body that are missing or deformed 🔹Myotatic Reflex is the mechanism that mediates the jaw-closing reflex and […]

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