burnside dental studio - swiss denture technique - clinical and technical procedures

Peter Meeds Rdt Dip Cdt RCS (Eng)

www.burnsidedental.com

Copyright Burnside Dental Studio 2010

Peter Meeds with Pius Obwegeser, Candulor Swiss Denture Course instructor


Patient starting treatmentCopyright Burnside Dental Studio 2010

Patient without dentures with well defined upper maxilla


Primary diagnostic mouldings taken Copyright Burnside Dental Studio 2010

Fully extended lower primary moulding Copyright Burnside Dental Studio 2010

Upper moulding using alginate syringe



Impressions cast in vacuum mixed dental stone

Primary master casts Cast in dental stoneCopyright Burnside Dental Studio 2010

Fabrication of close fitting baseplates Copyright Burnside Dental Studio 2010

Secondary impressions taken using custom baseplates


Incisal edge of anterior teeth measured using the papillometer


Secondary upper impression and baseplate ready to be used for facebow

recordingCopyright Burnside Dental Studio 2010

Facebow recording in processCopyright Burnside Dental Studio 2010

Establishing tooth length and positionCopyright Burnside Dental Studio 2010

Assessing horizontal plane of upper denture teethCopyright Burnside Dental Studio 2010

Inter-pupilary line parallel to bite planeCopyright Burnside Dental Studio 2010

Bite rims re-assessedCopyright Burnside Dental Studio 2010

Attaching gothic arch tracing platesCopyright Burnside Dental Studio 2010

Gothic arch tracing recorded with patient standing


Tracing arrowhead clearly markedCopyright Burnside Dental Studio 2010

Centric relation recorded and secured Copyright Burnside Dental Studio 2010


Bite registration showing locked condylator

Maxilliary cast mounted on articulator


Checking centre position of front teeth


Personalised setting of remaining anterior teeth


Positioning of all upper teeth on articulator using static laser


Posterior teeth set in a ‘pestle and mortar’ configuration according to the

Swiss denture concept Copyright Burnside Dental Studio 2010

Trial dentures partially waxed up Copyright Burnside Dental Studio 2010

Completed wax trial denture in placeCopyright Burnside Dental Studio 2010

Wax dentures being prepared for polymerisation


Wax removed in preparation for acrylic colouring


Placement of multi-layered gum colouring acrylics to lower denture


Denture flask undergoing hydraulic compression


…….. And upper denture


Denture acrylic added to blend with Candulor gum colouring acrylics


Dentures deflasked and remounted on articulator for calibration



Dentures hand polished

Dentures re-mounted on articulator for occlusal calibrationCopyright Burnside Dental Studio 2010

Patient after treatment


Lower denture in situ (slightly out of focus)


Upper denture in-situ


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