Simple technique to fabricate a crown for abutment of an existing cast partial removable denture

Simple technique to fabricate a crown for abutment of an existing cast partial removable denture

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Solid The requirement of full crown restoration for abutments of existing Cast partial removable denture is common.Retrofitting a crown to existing cast partial denture (CPD) clasps and guiding planes is a challenging task.Literature describes various direct, indirect, and direct-indirect techniques to overcome this dilemma.All these involve elaborate steps, necessitating refabrication of CPD or extended clinical adjustment time for ensuring a proper fit that is elusive in most cases and also patient has to do without Lower Firmware CPD during laboratory procedure.

The recent use of computer-aided design-computer-aided manufacture technology for this purpose is proving to be a promising but expensive option.A simple technique is presented here to generate a blueprint of required final contours to facilitate a fully contoured metal crown to fit under an existing CPD.