28 August 2023
Succeeding in obtaining a prefect impression is perhaps one of the most complex challenges facing dentists, especially when taking impressions on patients with fixed restorations (1). It is interesting to note that a fairly high percentage of the impressions that leave dental practices and are delivered to dental laboratory benches have obvious flaws (2-4). The […]
2 August 2023
BOPT (Biologically Oriented Preparation Technique) involves the vertical preparation of the tooth stump to allow the mucosa to adapt to the prosthetic contours of crowns. [1.2] It is a dental preparation protocol in which diamond burs are used to eliminate the emergence of the natural tooth at the cemento-enamel junction. This allows the subsequent fabrication […]
2 August 2023
Impressions for edentulous patients are an extensively debated topic and the schools of thought among clinicians vary considerably [1]. In today’s scientific literature, several studies have compared digital and analogue impressions, focusing primarily on dentulous and implanted patients [2–5]. There are, however, far fewer studies comparing analogue and digital impressions in edentulous patients, particularly in-vivo […]
2 August 2023
Impressions for edentulous patients are a much-debated topic, as there is still great diversity amongst clinicians, who use different techniques dictated by their personal school of thought rather that conclusive literature evidence [1]. Furthermore, within the scientific community there is still a certain amount of confusion regarding the need to use a two-phase technique for […]
23 June 2023
Lingual orthodontics is one of the possible orthodontic practices that can be used to approach, treat and correct a malocclusion. It is a variant of classic vestibular multibracket fixed orthodontics, in which the brackets, archwires, ligatures and all of the auxiliary devices are primarily managed on the lingual side of the teeth, i.e. on the […]
12 June 2023
Removable full dentures are full dental prostheses that replace the entire dentition and the reabsorbed soft and hard tissues of the upper and lower jaws, and that can be easily inserted and removed by patients themselves [1]. The clinical and technical stages required to fabricate removable full dentures are a great challenge for dentists and […]
29 May 2023
Dental models are positive reproductions of a patient’s intraoral situation. (1) They can be fabricated using either the conventional technique, by casting gypsum inside an impression, or a CAD/CAM digital technique, by milling or 3D printing. (2) Depending on how they are used, Models can be divided into two families (1, 3, 4): Let’s focus […]
8 May 2023
Dental impressions are negative reproductions of the teeth and adjacent structures. (1) The more adjacent structures an impression records, the greater the extent of the impression will be. The extent of an impression is therefore a physical-anatomical-volumetric characteristic. An extensive impression records the details even of anatomical structures that are very distant from the teeth or the primary structures […]
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