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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...