TOPIC: INSERTION, RELINING AND REBASING

🎯 KEY POINTS: 

🔹Shim stocks are useful in verifying the presence and location of the occlusal contacts.

🔹Spoon denture is the maxillary interim RPD which is without clasp and whose palatal resin base resembles the shape of the spoon.

🔹It is usually used during periodontal treatment.

🔹RPD is preferred in periodontally compromised dentition as it provides cross-arch stabilization.

🔹Lingual plate prevents food impaction between the interproximal spaces between the teeth.

🔹Disjunct dentures are special type of stress breakers which consist of a bar and a slot.

🔹Spoon Denture resembles a spoon.