Dental impressions are an important part of routine diagnostic and therapeutic dental procedures. Using conventional impression materials, the dentist captures intraoral details, technician uses for casts pouring. Intraoral scanners (IOS) fast, accurate more pleasant a patient than techniques became valid alternative to those Thirty-four students performed alginate digital on each other filled ...

The loose and unstable lower complete denture is one of the most common problems faced by denture patients with highly resorbed ridge. The management of such highly resorbed ridges has always posed a difficulty to the prosthodontist.Obtaining consistent mandibular denture stability has longbeen a challenge for dental profession. The simplest approach often is to extend the denture base adequate...

Recently, making electronic data of the multimedia such as music, images, books, and so on has been spread. However, it is necessary to look for specific contents in the database with a large amount of music data because electronic data increases rapidly. Therefore, an efficient search engine is requested. This paper presents a music retrieval method focusing on the impression keywords. In the ...

BACKGROUND This study was carried out to evaluate the effect of two commercially available chemical disinfectants namely sodium hypochlorite and glutaraldehyde and a surface wetting agent on the wettability of three high precision elastomeric impression materials, addition silicone, condensation silicone and polyether. MATERIALS AND METHODS Three different types of elastomeric impression mate...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this pilot study was to evaluate the efficiency, difficulty and operator's preference of a digital impression compared with a conventional impression for single implant restorations. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty HSDM second year dental students performed conventional and digital implant impressions on a customized model presenting a single implant. The outcome of the imp...

Rehabilitation of a highly resorbed mandibular ridge can be a difficult and challenging one. Making an impression with available stock trays, even after modification is difficult in case of extremely resorbed ridges. In such cases, an innovative technique of making impression with properly adapted wire and silicone putty can be used to make a proper impression to achieve maximum retention and s...