CHAPTER XIII LABORATORY PROCEDURES

OUTLINE OF CLINICAL AND LABORATORY

PROCEDURES FOR CONSTRUCTION OF
REMOVABLE PARTIAL DENTURES

Clinical procedures Laboratory procedures

1. Examination, Diagnosis and

treatment planning.
a. Extra and intra-oral
examination.
b. Radiographic
examination.

2. Making primary impression: o Pouring the primary

Elastic impression material in
a perforated stock tray is
used.
3. Mouth preparation:
Conservative, periodontal,
.and surgical treatment
impression in stone plaster to
produce a study cast.
o Surveying the study cast.
o Mounting the diagnostic cast.
o Construction of special trays.

4. Abutment Preparation:
occlusal rest seats, and
guiding planes and probable
recontouring of abutment
teeth.

5. Final impression. Fabricate secondary cast

Using either Alginate or rubber o The final impression is
base impression materials in poured in dental stone to obtain
acrylic special trays. the master cast.

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6. Try-in of the metal frame
work on the master cast and
in the patient’s mouth.
7. Functional impression with
framework for distal
extension partial denture
cases.
8. Jaw relation registration and
tooth selection.
9. Try-in of the waxed denture.
10. Delivery of removable partial
denture and final adjustment.
11. Periodic check-up and
relining when necessary.
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o Surveying the master cast.
o Drawing the partial denture
design on the master cast.
o Modification of master cast
for duplication.
o Duplication of the master
cast into the refractory cast.
o Construction of wax pattern
on refractory cast.
o Sprueing, investing, wax
elimination.
o Casting.
o Pickling, finishing and
polishing of metal framework.
o Pouring of the functional
impression to alter the master
cast and
o Construction of wax blocks.
oMounting casts on the
articulator.
oSetting-up of artificial teeth.
oFlasking, processing acrylic
resin.
oFinishing and polishing.
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