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DTE 314 Complete Denture Prosthodontics I

HND1 levelMedical & Health Sciences38 topics

DTE 314 covers 38 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Occlusion, retention and stability in complete dentures
  2. Class II and Class III jaw relationships
  3. Tooth positioning and articulation
  4. Balanced occlusion
  5. Curves of Spee and Monson
  6. Cohesion and adhesion in denture stability
  7. Festooning and contouring
  8. Immediate complete dentures
  9. Indications, contraindications and advantages of immediate dentures
  10. Design and construction of complete immediate dentures
  11. Alveoplasty in immediate denture construction
  12. Clinical factors in selecting immediate restorations
  13. Recording gingival margins and extraction socket considerations
  14. Semi-adjustable articulators
  15. Types and components of articulators
  16. Facebow and its indications
  17. Centric and eccentric occlusal records
  18. Fully adjustable articulators
  19. Mounting casts with facebow records
  20. Duplicate dentures
  21. Materials and procedures for duplicate denture construction
  22. Resilient liners
  23. Incorporation of resilient liners into dentures
  24. Class I jaw relationships
  25. Immediate denture restorations
  26. Design principles for complete dentures
  27. Methods of complete denture construction
  28. Clinical factors in choice of immediate restorations
  29. Effect of operative techniques on final prosthesis
  30. Occlusion, retention and stability
  31. Tooth positioning in abnormal jaw relations
  32. Articulation and balanced occlusion
  33. Cohesion, adhesion, festooning and contouring
  34. Malocclusion and its prevention
  35. Mastication and occlusion
  36. Complete immediate dentures
  37. Types of complete immediate dentures
  38. Recording tooth axes and gingival margins

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Occlusion, retention and stability in complete dentures

In complete denture prosthodontics, mastering occlusion, retention, and stability is essential for achieving functional and comfortable prostheses. These concepts govern how the denture contacts the opposing arch, how it stays in place, and how it resists dislodging forces, directly influencing masticatory efficiency and patient satisfaction.

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