Dentures

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Billed as flexible and easy to use, Weber’s supple denture lining compound is reportedly tasteless and odorless, and naturally fills gaps in the gums created by shrinkage once the teeth are removed.

Seal & Shine spray is said to seal the tissue surfaces of a denture and other acrylic appliances from bacteria and plaque. The spray leaves the treated surfaces smooth to increase fit and provide a high level of luster to enhance the appearance of the final product. It is easy-to-use and chemically bonds to all types of acrylic resin, eliminating peeling of the treated areas. Dental Ventures of America 800-228-6696

The MDI Mini Dental Implant system from 3M ESPE is minimally invasive and immediately stabilizes loose dentures using a 90-minute patented protocol, often completed without a flap and using the patient’s existing denture.

A roundup of the best denture tooth options available on the market.

With the growth of denture tooth options available in the market, and the growing reliance on the dental technician to use clinically provided information to select teeth, it’s valuable to understand what a particular tooth brand offers, and how it fits into your laboratory business model.

Ariana Feldberg is the founding laboratory technician at Ideal Dental Laboratory in Aquinnah, Mass. Feldberg’s talent is only matched by the passion she has for her job, so it may come as a surprise that she started her adult life as a marine biologist.

The lab After working in larger, high-production labs for several years James Davidge and his wife opened James Dean Prosthetic Arts in California about a year ago. The two-person removables lab focuses on quality and using only the best materials available. They have about 40 clients and are focused on finding out of the box ways to provide high quality prosthetics.

Earlier this year, I competed in the first North American Candulor KunstZahnWerk® “Art of Denture” competition featuring Candulor’s “Swiss art of Prosthetics” and Camlog’s “perfect fit” implants.

Putting itself further behind it's economy line of Artic denture teeth, Heraeus recently announced a 3-year warranty to back the brand. The 3-year warranty has already been in place for the company's premium Mondial teeth lines and it's mid-priced Basic teeth.

Permitting fully automated and shrinkage-compensating polymerization of denture base material, the IvoBase® System consists of a PMMA-based denture base material and a custom injector. The IvoBase Acrylic material combines the advantages of heat- and cold-curing denture base resins, meeting the requirements of both. The hybrid material’s initial residual monomer content is <1.5%. IvoBase High Impact also is available for cases where high fracture resistance is desired.

Dental Lab Products Managing Editor Noah Levine talks with Ted Smudde, Managing Director for Candulor USA Inc., about the top denture cases from the KunstZahnWek "Art of Denture" Competition North American show. "We had 50 people who registered to participate in the competition," said Smudde. "We were pleasantly surprised by the quality in the final results."

Dentists face numerous challenges associated with full-mouth extractions and arbitrary placement of dental implants. Solutions can result in less than desirable physical properties of the final restoration, and the resulting restorations may require repeated service and possibly exhibit longevity issues.

Commonly encountered challenges faced by laboratories when fabricating implant-supported dentures are lack of case planning and arbitrary implant placement that often create nearly impossible fabrication scenarios. For these reasons, technicians should be included as an integral part of the implant restorative team to provide critical information regarding tentative case design and subsequent implant placement decisions.

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We all like and enjoy being in a contest to see who is judged best, and more importantly, who wins bragging rights among their colleagues.

Whether talking about cell phones where something new and improved comes along every other day or cars where the next model comes out next year, the state-of-the-art in any category only remains so until something better comes along.

Whether working with a milled bar or a cast bar knowing what will be built around it comes from experience. Different technicians and labs follow different protocols for working on these cases, but there are definite factors that must be taken into account when creating a denture that will be attached to a number of implants.

Wax bite rims have long been the main means of recording vertical dimension and centric relation for fully edentulous patients. Unfortunately, this method presents many challenges to establishing an accurate recording.

Effecting more than 40 million patients in the United States alone, edentulism has become a significant problem worldwide and has caused an increase in patients presenting with a broad range of functional and emotional ailments that add to the stress of losing their teeth.1,2

The Lab Orville Sadler, CDT, is the head technician at Bastrop Denture and Implant Center in Bastrop, Texas. His two-person lab fabricates dentures for one doctor. The lab portion of the clinic does 15 to 20 dentures a day. Sadler has been at the clinic for 6 years and a lab technician for 41 years. The Product

Brea, Calif.-In the spirit of continuing education and lifelong learning, Vident recently conducted an in-house training on denture teeth for its sales representatives at the Vident Training Center in Brea, Calif.

Treating edentulism pursues differing objectives: from a functional standpoint, restoring reasonable mastication and phonetic ability; and from an esthetic standpoint, restoring a patient’s natural smile in unison with age and personality. The aim is to give the individual a better quality of life and greater self-esteem.

Boutique lab. I really dislike that moniker used by many to describe laboratories that deliver a more comprehensive end product than the norm.

As removable prosthetic technologists/technicians, we know denture base resins have certain limitations to withstanding forces that may be incurred due to individual patient indication, (para-function, malocclusion, loss of opposing dentition, lack of regular intraoral maintenance).

Patients presenting with limited vertical space, cross bite, parafunctional habits, or especially implant supported and retained prosthetics provide challenges to dental professionals. Patients will break or fracture prosthetics, leading to a loss of faith in the restorative team as well as non-revenue time. 

Excellence in service is a unique ability to anticipate the needs of your customer. As dental technicians, we offer a technical prosthodontic service for consulting, designing and manufacturing complete denture prosthetics according to a clinician’s dental laboratory work authorization or prescription.

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The group officially kicked off its seventh annual conference Friday morning with a performance from Senior Vice President Lorie Streeter and other AADOM members. Streeter took the stage dressed as Lady Gaga with her own rendition of bad romance before she moved on a song a bit more appropriate for Nashville-Gretchen Wilson’s I’m here for the party.