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.
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