COMPLETE DENTURE OVERVIEW - Facial height/ Separation

of dentures
 Diagnosis & Tx plan
 Centric relation registration
 Tissue Condition
- Ant/post & mediolateral
- Improve tissue health
relationship
- Resilient Liner
 Mount mandibular cast on articulator
 Repair denture if necessary
 Set ant. & post. teeth in wax
 Preliminary impression
- Ability to visualize &
 Pour diagnostic casts
change appearance
 Make custom trays
 Finalize waxup
- For more accurate
 Remove denture from articulator flask
impressions
for processing
 Border Mold
 Flask waxup
- Accurate registration of
 Boil out wax & remove denture bases
peripheries for retention
- Teeth trapped in stone
 Remove tray spacer & load
 Pack acrylic resin
impression material
- Hydraulic pressure or
 Make final impression
injection
 Box impression
 Remount & adjust for processing
- Stronger casts w/
errors
peripheries for processing
 Fabricate remount index
 Pour master casts
 Remove from cast , finish & polish
 Record bases & occlusion rims
 Remount & adjust occlusion
- For making jaw
 Variations:
relationship records
- Single dentures
 Face bow record
- Overdentures
- Relates maxilla to
- Immediate dentures
transverse hinge axis
 Mount maxillary cast
- Same relationship to

transverse hinge axis

 Determine occlusal vertical dimension