European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

EVALUATION OF FUNCTION, OCCLUSION AND ARTICULATION IN PATIENTS WEARERS OF TOTAL DENTURES

Dr. Budima Pejkovska Shahpaska, Dr. Sci., Specialist in Dental Prosthetics

ABSTRACT

Patients with total edentuloissness that come to our dental offices everyday are a specific category of patients. For many reasons we are obliged to take meticulous attention to details for providing the best possible solutions of manufacturing total dentures that are satisfactory. Living in the XXI century we are obsessed with the digital era, with possibilities for digital impressions, digital dental smile design, exocad, exocam programs etc. Then there is implant prosthetics with implant overdentures, with indication for usage of two, four, six even eight implant. There are many reasons that suggest that some patients have relative or absolute contraindications for implants. Others cannot afford them, nor can they afford CAD/CAM designed total dentures. For all of the above factors, still conventional prosthetics worldwide is a golden standard for a wide category of patients.

Keywords: digital dental smile design, exocad, exocam programs etc.