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Rules to Follow:
• All interproximal Plates with rests are always on the side of abutment tooth, away from
edentulous area
• All Final Master casts should be surveyed in the true horizontal. No tilting of surveyor needed.
○ If there's no undercut on the abutment tooth at horizontal position, there wont be undercut
in the mouth
○ An undercut found on a tilted cast will be frictionally and not passively retained in the
mouth
○ All final impressions should be taken in stock trays using either alginate/hydrocolloid
○ Custom trays are only needed when stock trays cannot be properly placed over the
dentition
○ Edentulous tissue should be at rest position when the impression is taken
• Lower denture base : Shy of muccobuccal fold , as thin as possible, includes the retro molar pad
• Upper denture base : Shy of muccobuccal fold, includes tuberosity for free end saddles
Tooth Preparations
• Utilize Equipoise Analyzer for parallel interproximal plate preparations
• Rest seat : conventional manner : 1-1.5mm deep
• All rests seated on the mesial or distal abutment away from edentulous area
• Interproximal plate : 1mm thick
○ Offers stabilization and reciprocates free end bar of retention
○ Not necessary to plate all way to buccal. 3/4 may be enough provided a 1mm thickness -->
only for all tooth borne design
Retentive Device
• Never placed well below the survey line.
• Placed on the bottom of survey line
• Thickness of clasp is placed below survey line
Little or No undercut
• Make an Equipoise crown on abutment tooth with a rest 1mm deep at the side away from
edentulous area and a flattened area and a 1mm space between abutment crown and adjacent
tooth
• Recontour abutment tooth and provide undercut
• Use Equipoise clasp with an I bar