Hygienic partial denture design
Lately I've been watching through and reading resources by Dr. Findlay Sutton, a prosthodontist in the UK who educates about denture technique and design. One particular aspect of dentistry which I need to develop is the design of partial dentures. When my colleagues have asked me in the past to assist them with a partial denture design, my answer has bee "ask someone else, I don't know much about partial denture design." Perhaps this is an effective way of passing the buck, but it is not possible when I am facing the same task with my own patients. I can remember one particularly bad RPD design I prescribed back at uni. It was a unilateral, premolar replacement and I prescribed a full palatal coverage from molar to molar with a lingual plate covering the gingival margins of all the teeth in question. I received a fair earful from my supervisor upon seeing the product who had not actually seen the design prior to construction. This particularly careless approach to d...