Denture Adhesives - A Literature Review

A comfortable and durable denture is every patient’s right and desire. A successful and complete denture treatment however combines a good technique, effective patient rapport and patient familiarity with the possible management options so as to provide maximum satisfaction to the patient. All these are possible if certain fundamentals about stress distribution and tissue preservation are well balanced [1]. As evidenced and stated by Hardy and Kapur [2], retention of a complete denture may be influenced by a number of factors like physical, physiological, psychological, mechanical and surgical.