PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to compare the fit of cast gold crowns fabricated from the conventional and the digital impression technique. MATERIALS AND METHODS Artificial tooth in a master model and abutment teeth in ten patients were restored with cast gold crowns fabricated from the digital and the conventional impression technique. The forty silicone replicas were cut in three se...

Introduction New digital impression methods are currently available in the market, and soon the long-awaited dream of sparing patients one of the most unpleasant experiences in dental clinics, the taking of dental impressions, will be replaced by intraoral digital scanning. Both in orthodontics and restorative area (prosthodontics and restorative dentistry in particular), the use of plaster mod...

Patients reporting with large maxillary defects pose great difficulty in prosthodontic practice. After thorough history and clinical examination, prosthetic rehabilitation of these patients usually starts with an impression. In such cases conventional single step impression technique solely may not give the desired results. If the defect is of large size then impression making becomes difficult...

Background:
 Dental impressions become contaminated with micro-organism from patient’s saliva and blood which can cross-infect stone cast poured against them. The aim of the present study was to compare efficacy commercially available disinfection products, one containing glutaraldehyde, sodium hypo chloride ethanol for material.
 Methods: For this investigations, dental impression 60...

introduction: the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of bridge orientation in casting machine on castability and quality of base metal castings. methods: three groups of patterns with different direction and lengths in casting machine were casted and then studied qualitatively and quantitatively using mean and standard deviation in table of frequency. results: larger nodules and poros...

abstract fixed dental prosthesis success requires appropriate impression taking of the prepared finish line. this is critical in either tooth supported fixed prosthesis (crown and bridge) or implant supported fixed prosthesis (solid abutment). if the prepared finish line is adjacent to the gingival sulcus, gingival retraction techniques should be used to decrease the marginal discrepancy among ...

BACKGROUND This study was conducted to compare the linear dimensional accuracy of die materials before and after disinfection of the impression. Type IV and V conventional dental stone, type IV-resin impregnated and copper-plated die materials were studied. MATERIALS AND METHODS A stainless-steel master die analogs to a complete veneer crown preparation with three scribed lines (I: vertical, ...