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This course will review the knowledge and procedures necessary to create proper Complete Dentures, from the first visit to delivery. Particular attention will be paid to the literature, the clinical and technical passages and to the functional and aesthetic rehabilitating possibilities of these prostheses.

Course Program

• First visit: Importance of the extra-oral and intra-oral examination, radiographic exams, study and evaluation of macroscopic and microscopic oral structures important in C.D., preliminary impressions
  
• Phase two: Custom trays, final impressions and border molding: how and why, mastercasts, creation and use of the ideal bases and wax rims: concepts of support, stability and retention.
  
• Phase three: Bases and wax rims clinical use. Evaluation of the proper vertical dimension of occlusion and of the maxillo/mandibular relationship, how and why to mount the bases and related master casts on the articulator, how to choose and correctly position the proper anterior teeth.
  
• Phase four: Clinical aesthetic and phonetic evaluations, how to choose and correctly position the posterior teeth; how to set the condilar guidance on the articulator, different types of occlusion, edentulism vs. aging changes and limitations. How to mimic the nature carving the bases flanges, evaluations of the possibilities to improve and correct the oral and facial aesthetics, C.D. processing, flasking and deflasking, in-lab remounting on the articulator for the 1st occlusal check, polishing and characterizing, 2nd clinical occlusal check
  
• C.D. delivery: clinical adaptation and integration evaluations