Thickening the Conversion Prosthesis

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Another thing that you can accomplish with bite registration inside of the denture is say you've already done the proper amount of alveoplasty. Okay, you've already done enough alveoplasty and your denture still is a little bit thin. So if your denture is too thin, it can break in. It limits the amount of restorative room that you're gonna have for your final prosthesis. I mean, you can always change the thickness of your final later. But I'm just saying that it's better to have it well approximated now. And so if your denture is too thin, what you can do is add a layer of bite registration. Seed it. Alright, and then after this hardens up, see if that's the right thickness.

So you measure from here to here. Right. This is the thickness, and if it's still not thick enough, add another layer in here. So you just take some bite registration, add another layer, and then seed it again and have the patient bite down. And after they bite down, this gets a little bit thicker, right, because you added a new layer.

So with every incremental layer, you're making it thicker and thicker. So anyway, this one looks like an adequate thickness to me. It's got pretty good length on it. And so I'm just gonna move forward, and we can see that our occlusion is looking okay. It's looking alright, and so I'm gonna go ahead and move forward with the conversion.

Lesson Summary

Another way to use bite registration in dentures is to adjust the thickness of a thin denture. If the denture is too thin, it can break and limit the space for the final prosthesis. To address this issue, a layer of bite registration can be added to the denture. After it hardens, the thickness can be evaluated. If it's still not thick enough, another layer of bite registration can be added. This process can be repeated until the desired thickness is achieved. Each new layer makes the denture thicker. Once the desired thickness is reached, the occlusion can be evaluated, and the conversion process can be continued.

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