Abstract

DUPLICATE DENTURE

*Dr. Marwa Fareed Ibrahim and *Dr. Maysoon Majeed Abdulla

Abstract

Duplication or coping technique offer considerable advantage to both the patient and the operator for saving time and achieving a satisfactory conclusion to treatment. In patient who need another set of denture for whatever reason, some factors in the duplicated dentures should be considered, the original dentures should be acceptable physically and esthetically, the vertical dimension should be accurate and the centric occlusion achieved at centric relation. Several methods for duplicating dentures were used, some use both tooth colored and denture base from cold cure acrylic resin material in a flexible mould material, and other use a set of artificial teeth with heat cure acrylic denture base material using articulator and conventional flasking procedure. In this article we will review different methods for denture duplication and the variations between them.

Keywords: Copy denture, duplicate denture, replica.