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Custom denture fabrication technic

US4517043A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateSep 26, 1983
Grant dateMay 14, 1985
Priority date
Expiry dateSep 26, 2003

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T156/1002
  • WIPO fieldMedical technology
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A method of fabricating a custom denture using a preformed tooth arch and a custom formed denture base, attaching these units with a self polymerizing plastic, using a plasterless keying articulator in conjuction with an occlusal translator thereby completing the entire fabrication of a custom denture on the articulator without the conventional waxup, flasking, processing which is the present state of the art.

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