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: 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: 🔹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 […]
TOPIC: LABORATORY PROCEDURE, OCCLUSAL RELATIONSHIP AND POSTINSERTION OF REMOVABLE PARTIAL DENTURE 🎯 KEY POINTS: 🔹Aerosol spray is useful in fitting the framework on the master cast. 🔹Functionally generated pathway technique eliminates the need for face bow transfer. 🔹Gypsum-bonded investment is used for casting type IV gold alloys and ticonium. 🔹Boley gauze is used for the […]
WHAT ARE COMPONENTS OF RPD (REMOVABLE PARTIAL DENTURES) 🎯 KEY POINTS 🔹The fulcrum line is an imaginary line that joins the occlusal rests around which the prosthesis tends to rotate in function. 🔹Continuous gum denture is an artificial denture consisting of porcelain teeth and tinted porcelain denture base material fused to a platinum base. 🔹Fulcrum […]
SALIVARY GLAND DISORDERS 📌 IMPORTANT QUESTION & ANSWER Q1. Classify salivary secretion? Ans. Serous. Mucous. Mixed. Q2. Classify salivary gland. Ans. Parotid gland [serous]. Submandibular [mixed predominantly mucous]. Sublingual [mixed]. Q3. Define Anatomical opening of the parotid duct. Ans.Parotid duct [stenson’s duct] opening is seen as a papilla in the buccal mucosa opposite the maxillary […]
LOCAL ANAESTHESIA 📌 IMPORTANT QUESTION & ANSWER Q1. Define nerve block. Ans. It is a procedure in which the local anesthetic is deposited (injected) close to a nerve trunk. It blocks sensation from the region which receives the peripheral distribution of the nerve. Q2. Define intra osseous injection. Ans. Intra osseous injections are one which […]
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