A denture service can be a positive life-changing experience for an edentulous patient. It can also be a very negative struggle for the patient and dentist. This course addresses why denture services are often unpredictable and how to improve predictability and success. It also covers the important consultation/examination appointment. Understanding your patient’s existing problems and concerns and their wants and expectations regarding new edentulous restorations is extremely important for success. Also, evaluate their existing oral conditions and determine if you think you can successfully treat the edentulous patient - successfully for the patient and successfully for the dentist and team. Life is too short to fabricate complete dentures unpredictably and unsuccessfully. This series of courses will show you a much better way. Learn and incorporate the Keys to Complete Denture Success into your workflow to have fewer problems during the fabrication process and after the completed dentures are delivered.

Course 2 addresses the intra-oral structures that are important to record in adequate edentulous final impressions. It also presents a simplified final impression technique for tissue supported complete dentures including how to determine and mark the posterior extension of the maxillary denture and how to locate, mark and record the retromolar pads in the lower impression. Also discussed is the importance of recording a preliminary centric relation/vertical dimension of occlusion record for the lab to use to mount the master casts for fabricating the set up for the records appointment. This reduces frustration for the dentist, saves chair time, and increases quality of the final dentures. Also covered are important devices for fabricating complete dentures including the alma gauge, Swissedent wax rim former, papillameter and alameter. Life is too short to fabricate complete dentures unpredictably and unsuccessfully. This series of courses will show you a much better way. Learn and incorporate the Keys to Complete Denture Success into your workflow to have less problems during the fabrication process and after the completed dentures are delivered. The keys are very important to increase your success and the keys are covered in courses 1-5. Make your complete denture service an enjoyable, successful and profitable service you offer your patients.

This is the third course of a 5-course series on Keys to Complete Denture Success and addresses in detail simplified methods for determining and recording the positions of denture teeth, vertical dimension of occlusion and centric relation for success and predictability of complete denture restorations. Life is too short to use wax rims to make records for the vertical dimension of occlusion and centric relation for complete dentures. Wax rims are bulky, cumbersome, difficult to adjust and often lead to inaccurate records. This course will show you a much better way. The sequence of steps for refining the contours of the maxillary aesthetic wax rim to record the positions of denture teeth is discussed in detail. This includes how to determine the positions of the anterior teeth for aesthetics when severe bone resorption has occurred, how to determine the dental midline, and how to adjust and record the occlusal plane. For the predictability of denture fabrication, it is very important to accurately determine and record an acceptable vertical dimension of occlusion. Simplified clinical steps are explained in detail. It is very important to precisely locate and record centric relations. Simplified clinical steps for this are discussed in detail.

By incorporating the keys to complete denture success into their workflows, dentists can increase their predictability and success with complete denture fabrication. This course presents important keys for complete denture success, including relevant laboratory steps for preparing the case for the wax try-in appointment. Additionally, the course provides simplified steps for the crucial wax try-in appointment. It also covers the dentist's evaluation of aesthetics and setup, as well as the patient's.

This is the fifth and last course of a 5-course series on "Keys to Complete Denture Success" and presents important keys to tissue-supported complete denture success regarding techniques and steps for delivering dentures, including: • laboratory steps for processing and finishing dentures including the importance of controlling the polymerization shrinkage of the acrylic resin during processing of dentures. • details regarding how to adjust lingualized denture occlusion after denture processing. • discussing in detail techniques for delivering successful complete dentures including effective use of white silicone paste to adjust the denture bases to adapt well to the supporting tissues. • that it is recommended to not adjust occlusion on tissue-supported complete dentures intraorally using articulating paper and the steps to accurately adjust denture occlusion intraorally. • Post denture delivery appointment adjustments and problem-solving patient concerns. • Important considerations if a denture reline is necessary on the new dentures.