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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
11 April 2023
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is “a computerised process that aims to reproduce human or animal intelligence and that is applied in a vast range of fields (for example, automatic learning, natural language processing and robotics)” [1].
It is already applied in a vast spectrum of disciplines,…
3 February 2023
Alginate is the most commonly-used impression material in dental practices [1]. Its uses range from the fabrication of study and antagonist models to the fabrication of work models for orthodontics [2].
Alginate, which has been developed since the 1930s, is a material belonging to the irreversible…
3 February 2023
Alginate is undoubtedly one of the most commonly used impression materials in orthodontics. (1.2)
But why is it so popular? And what characteristics must an “orthodontic” alginate have?
Let’s take a look at them.
In orthodontics,…
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