you can see the quality of the dentistry provided by the technicians at glidewell
lab this is second to none we're able to improve the quality of life of our patients dramatically
so we have a patient that wore conventional dentures for many years
and decided that she wanted her quality of life uh improved she was tired of the gagging reflex
not being able to chew food properly so the locator over denture attachment system is an
ideal financially affordable treatment modality for our patients to greatly improve the quality of
their life we have some ridges that are residual ridges that we decided uh with cbct analysis
that we are able to precisely and predictably place our hon dental implants in ideal position
and we precisely place our dental implants this is just demonstrating a panoramic flat view
of four implants in the maxilla and four implants in the mandible so here we took our our final
impression of our implant level impression of our dental implant here is an open tray concept the
laboratory makes a hard model makes stable record bases and we start the process of making a denture
we will do our bite relations and the laboratory will fabricate uh proper tooth selection
uh color function aesthetics all the the proper techniques that we use in fabricating ideal
dentures with our patients we torque them into position and you can see my ap spread is going to
allow a real nice functional overdenture we're torquing them to what 30 newton sonometers
which will eliminate any rotation and then we're going to go through the process so we
have everything in place we have our quick up from voco we have our denture we have our locators in
position we're going to take these off of the model we're going to place them in the mouth
we torque them into position
now i'm doing a bite relation to make sure that we are re-establishing correct position
remember depending on how hard you press you could get some soft tissue changes so
simply take do a bite relation to make sure that there's no changes i would do one arch at a time
you can see that we have a nice bite relation and a good relationship
with our these are processed dentures and here's our locator system you'll
get all the attachments with the with the uh spacer ring the housing the titanium housing
and the black processing male and as we demonstrated take that o-ring
over each of those locator abutments they just slip right on and they're clearly blocking out
so you're not going to be concerned with undercuts here's our titanium housing we'll snap those on
and they simply snap into position so you know a hundred percent that those are completely
seated you can see our over denture we've relieved it we're going to put our quick up adhesive
material drip some in each of the receptacles we're going to dry that and then we're going
to take our quick up dual cure material and i'm going to fill each receptacle about two
thirds of the way up i'm pressing firmly allow that patient to function into our bite relation
everything's polished and then we're going to insert with our inserting tool the final
locator attachments and again as i like to do i i'd go with the lower one first a lower retentive
one first knowing that when the patient comes back and they're feeling more comfortable with the
appliance i will change it over to the next heavier attachment retentive attachment as
necessary so you can see i'm simply snapping into the attachment i'm going right to the receptacle
and doctors it'll just snap right in it snaps and then i'm turning the one end and that will
release it and i know that attachment is in correct ideal position for our patients
we then go back to the mouth the patient has to feel complete seating and i will test it
and check occlusion and you will have a patient that form and function is dramatically improved
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