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 in which all the forces acting on the mandible are neutralized.
🔹Stippling is done on the surface of the artificial gingiva with minute pits to simulate the natural appearance of the gingiva.