What is the best flexible partial for our patient?
For all my followers I have 4 live cases today.
Why am I excited? Because look at this, this is slim, very sexy. This is flexible, it’s really thin.
Hi, this is Luke again today I brought you a flexible partial
which is a very exciting moment I would like to show you why I'm excited
regarding the partial which is the most inexpensive of the prosthetics
so during the times we lost a tooth maybe 20 years old
maybe while fighting they lost a tooth or they broke a tooth, or while playing hockey
they broke the teeth, number 8 and 9 bingo number two, 14 year old patients who don’t
have any laterals ...missing teeth unfortunately, yes, they are missing teeth
and then 25 30 years old ...and getting stress, right
get a job they're eating chocolate
alright, they did not brush their teeth they get decay
so they go to they dentist, get an onlay inlay, prep it
eventually 35 40 they need a crown meaning they grind natural teeth because of decay
and they need the top of the crown
40 50 probably disease, illness, heavy stress right, and they are losing their teeth
so, I’m the laboratory guy, I'm actually a ceramist but I'm kind of really interested a lot of a
great stuff which is a great invention
why? because, whenever we used to make it
they use plastic, i call plastic or acrylic or flexible partial
but today I’m talking about the design meaning the regular partial is really bulky
and then thick and so that’s why they cannot taste much
when they are chewing their food so whenever they're using their tongue
it's really uncomfortable but look at this this is incredible
I mean to me this is a very sensational item it’s light and you can repair reline
especially in laboratory this is a RIGiDENT core
which is a flexible partial, which is injected it’s nylon-based
this is a simple design, ok very thin slim I call really sexy
it’s really cool stuff compared to regular big and heavy and thick stuff
but this is really cool stuff
then I can push together so they can wear it
it’s amazing so not only this
we mount... this is live case, it’s not sample
I don't like the samples so we make the retention
what do you mean retention? so, patient have it whenever they fit it
it's not going to drop down when you're dating
you know your girlfriend whatever you’re not going to be embarrassed right?
so we have to make it hold tight together so you can use so many different pink color
right so pink color meaning it’s different races
different country, I mean the asian, the black, and the white,
so we can change a little bit about the pink color too
so this is the most inexpensive way the dentist can do it for you
the patient, ok how long does it last?
i would say a couple years if you could you can do that
repair reline no problem 4, 5 years, not a problem some people 10 years
so this video is to educate you more not only laboratory technicians
laboratory technicians a lot of technician don’t know much about this one
now I announce to you guys so you can use it
choose it, give to your dentist, and then patient, this is not a legal service for you
you don’t have to contact me, I cannot provide you a doctor’s name okay so
contact your doctor, your local doctor and then ask them for all your prosthetics okay
thanks for watching
today we have a great design for our flexible partial wearers
material made by RIGiDENT from Posca Dental
instead of a gasket denture which we would traditionally do here
we can design the flexible partial to fit so what is the difference compared to...
gasket denture to this with a gasket denture you would need this
entire phalange down here and then you would line around the teeth with
the soft material the permasoft liner so you have dual materials
and that liner can fail this material is a great snug fit and it’s
not going to wear out like the soft lining material, see that great fit? So really thin is it gonna break or no?
no this is all injected material injected, so they can do repair reline?
yep we can in their chairside
no with this material we can do the repair reline here in the lab
how? we’ll just cut into it, make some great
retention how come dentists can’t?
dentists can’t because we have to inject this, this is an injected material
so we can repair it like our Fiberflex™ material
if we did an injectable acrylic which is our other product available
from Posca, the 4C, we can inject it, and then the doctors can
repair and reline that material chairside if they have an inject machine
no that one you can use any acrylic to bond to, the 4C material,
this is a RIGiDENT product though, this is a nylon base, the 4C is an acrylic base
so that is repairable this is going to give a patient stronger fit,
less phalange down here so there’s no tissue irritation
great fit over the bridge here this is the only lower but now this patient
has upper so compared to the other product you don’t
have to mention it so look at this huge difference between
look at the thinness of the design can you show me thinness of design,
this is amazing, this is my worry is fracture can it fracture or not?
no this has all the strength and durability of a fiber flex material
flexi nylon base it’s just stronger and better designs
more tolerated by patients they don’t have to cover the whole palate
this is live case? yeah they can taste more food because their
tongue taste more food
this area’s exposed so the tongue is not hitting acrylic
so they can taste their food better compared to this, absolutely
give your patients options alright we did almost like a gasket around here
we did a wrap around clasp and did a double, just for that added strength
so that’s not going to catch the patient’s cheek back here either
so good news is we can repair reline laboratory side
yes absolutely here’s the opposing
we can go right into the rest preps that doctor’s already have cut from partials
here is live case top and bottom see the occlusion contact
and then there’s no interference of materials back here
because with that slimmer design we don’t have to cover all the way back for retention
because of this really great gasket style clasping
same back can leave the area exposed so there’s more tissue contact and teeth contact there
okay another nice RIGiDENT kind of a flex
types partial which is very exciting about the lingual contour
is really thin just like gasket types
can you take it out Susan sure
it’s really flexible just like that see, can you believe that? right
it’s very inexpensive way we can give to the patient
cause they can wear it all the time right, this is a great combo design
we have lingual plating even though it’s flexible it’s minimal design
it’s not going to break? Are you sure?
right it’s the nylon base I’m going to call Alex then from Posca
the great feature about this material since it is a nylon base like our regular Fiber-flex™ partials
it gives it that strength so you can flex it
put it in right patients don’t have to be so careful
with an acrylic partial great lingual plate design,
gasket style double clasping on the molars great great fit
there’s no teeth on the opposing here but this is such a low profile we could thin
that design so there’s no interference, cusp interference with the upper
nice anchor’s clasp finished flat to the tissue
so there’s no lip catching there great thin material, picks up the patient’s
tissue tone since it’s so thin and it’s a better shade match so it doesn’t
look like there’s a bright pink partial in their mouth
this comes in all shades we do have a clear option, pink option, and
an ethnic mojari shade so this is RIGiDENT, which is injection,
it's not acrylic it’s an injection nylon based material,
it’ll replace like Valplast, Duraflex, all those materials
even though injection so we can repair reline we can do the repair reline here
say this patient with the injection?
yeah, this patient loses a couple more teeth we can set some teeth add it
and then move the clasp up but we can do that in lab for our doctors
which is great for the lab but what about the dentist, what if dentist
can trying to be injected or whatever they add it, what do they have to do?
well, they can, if they need something temporarily
say a patient lost at tooth they can cut some retention holes through
there and then repair it with some acrylic then
send it to us and then we can do the repair in the right materials
from the acrylic set up?
yeah, okay yeah, they can repair it chairside and add
something to fill some space if they have to
if the patient emergency lost a tooth uh huh, they can add a tooth
they can do whatever they can with acrylic so we can inject again, that’s good news
and so we’ll redo the repair when they get here
so another case, used to be we made the long and then with a big flexible partial
but this case we don’t have to go down there yeah, this case is special because they have
a bridge here they used to have a bridge here and they lost
these front two teeth so we’re making them a transitional option
this material is good for transitional partials as well as long term partials, depending on
patient care is it how long? is it a couple of years?
if they don’t have any much money right it’s a good option
and they could repair reline here too with acrylic, but they can do temporarily
they have to send to the lab so we could inject for them
right, okay normal this is a great idea of a regular flexi partial
compared to this, this is really huge palate
where you need the whole palate compared to this, so we can make them very thin
yes, and then this bridgework has really deep undercuts
so we had to block that out to make our model but you don’t want that material to flow
in there or you won’t have any line of draw
so a really great flexi design did a double lingual clasp there
just for added retention so it doesn’t twist side to side
but we’re not going deep into the undercuts so we eliminated all this palate
patient has more comfort they’ll be able to chew and eat without
it rocking because of this extra little clasp here
very slim design replacing the two missing teeth
it’s so thin here, with the same thing, this is live case
with a really deep overbite such a big deep overbite the material can
be so thin so we’re not doing any interference in there
okay that’s really helpful because the old materials
you needed at least 2 to 3 mm of clearance and in this case it just wouldn’t have worked
with a traditional flexi material so anybody questioning then call RIGiDENT,
alright, in California. And at Posca, his name’s Alex.
Okay, thanks Alex