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Course Overview:
This course is designed to refresh and reinforce your knowledge in the often underestimated discipline of full dentures—ensuring reproducible, high-quality treatment outcomes. You’ll gain a solid foundation in everything from anatomic impressions to bite registration, while deepening your understanding of the principles behind full dentures.
Key topics include:
How to avoid costly resets and reworks
Factors influencing denture retention and fixation
Design and application of clinical and laboratory aids
Decision-making criteria for effective treatment planning
Topics Covered
Support and position stability: The key to long-lasting results
Anatomic impressions
Functional impressions
Pre-bite registration
Esthetic control templates for determining intramaxillary relationships
Intraoral support pin registration (GERBER method) for intermaxillary relationships
From the Teacher
Restoring fully edentulous patients is a challenging but rewarding objective requiring skilled dentists to capture clinical data and technicians to implement it into prosthetic design. Complete dentures must not only restore function, esthetics, phonetics, but also replace lost tissues, demanding diverse skills including anatomy, biology, physics, communication, and craftsmanship. Simplification efforts have yet to lead to better prosthetics.
