Chairside technique for addition of teeth to an acrylic partial denture. A clinical report.

ABSTRACT

This article describes a chairside technique of addition of teeth to a patient's existing acrylic partial denture at the extraction appointment without the need for dental laboratory intervention. This maintains aesthetics, function, phonation, biologic integrity, patient confidence, and psychological well-being. An immediate denture is any fixed or removable dental prosthesis fabricated for placement immediately after the removal of a natural tooth/teeth [1,2]. Immediate dentures have many advantages over conventional dentures including conservation of patient's integrity, aesthetics, functionality, soft tissue support and occlusion [2-4]. Immediate dentures require several visits with associated costs and the patient has a period of adjustment to the new prosthesis. This clinical report describes a simple and fast technique of chairside immediate tooth addition to an existing denture avoiding some of these issues.