Impression Materials &

Procedures

DR MUHAMMAD RIZWAN MEMON

F.C.P.S
Assistan t professor
 Impression Materials
l Rigid Materials
l Thermoplastic Materials
l Elastic Materials
 Rigid Materials
l Plaster of Paris
- Used in dentistry for over 200 years

l Metallic Oxide Paste

- Not used as primary impression material
- Never used for impression that include remaining
natural teeth
- Not used in stock impression trays
- Used as secondary impression materials for complete
dentures and for extension base edentulous ridge
areas of a RDP in custom impression tray
- Can also be used for relining as an impression
material in distal extension denture bases.
 Thermoplastic Materials
l Mod eling Plasti c:
- Used for border correction of custom impression trays
for Kennedy Class I & II RDP bases
- Manufactured in several different colors, each color
being indication of temperature range at which the
material is plastic & workable
- Red (Red-Brown) material in cake form is used for
corrected impressions of extension base areas
- Red, gray and green material in stick form is used for
border molding an impression or impression tray.
- Green material is lowest fusing of the modeling
plastics
l Impression waxes:
- Iowa wax a nd Korecta wax
- Use d for recording functio nal or sup porting
form of an edentulous ridge
 Elastic Materials
l Reversible Hyd roco lloids:
- Used primarily as impression material for fixed
restorations
l Irreversible Hyd rocolloids:
- Used for making diagnostic casts and master casts
for RDPs
- Can not be stored for any length of time, have low
tear strength, provide less surface detail as compared
to rubber base and not dimensionally stable as other
materials
- Non toxic, non staining, inexpensive, have pleasant
odor and hydrophilic in nature.
l Rub ber-Base impressio n materials:
- Used for secondary corrected or altered cast
impressions
- High tear strength, moderately inexpensive, long
working and setting time
- Long term dimensional stability is poor due to water
loss after setting
- Do not recover well from deformation so not be used
when large or multiple undercuts are present
- Unpleasant odor, can stain clothes
l Poly ether impression materials:
- Provides good surface de tails
- Hyd rophilic
- Thixo trop ic
- Have lo w to mode rate tear stre ngth
- Shor ter working and setting time
- Unpleasant taste
- Flow characteristics an d flexibility is lowe st of
any elastic ma teria l, th at limit its use fo r
impression in RDP
l Silico ne Impression mater ials:
- Condensation and Addition reaction
- Addition reaction are most accurate and easier to use
- Pleasant odor, moderately high tear strength
- Excellent recovery from deformation
- Available in Hydrophobic and hydrophilic form
- Sulfur in latex gloves and aluminum and ferric sulfate
in gingival retraction cord may inhibit polymerization.
- More expensive
 Impressions of the Partially
Edentulous Arch
l Impression of the partially edentulous
arches must record accurately anatomic
form of teeth and surrounding tissues
l Materials that could deformed by removal
from teeth or tissue undercuts should not
be used
l Irreversible hydrocolloid is most commonly
used material for recording impression of
edentulous arches