Contribution of digital technology in the case of renewal of a complete prosthesis

Wear, damage or fracture of removable prostheses are common complaints in the office. This then results in the patient’s desire to rehabilitate, repair or redo their devices. However, renewing prostheses that the patient was previously satisfied with can be tedious. Sending them to the prosthetist to rebase or repair them has the disadvantage of depriving the patient of them for several days. The advent of digital technology now makes it possible to make complete prostheses from old ones, without leaving the patient without their devices. Principles Today, digital tools allow the creation of new prostheses from resin duplicates of existing devices. The advantage is to do without a primary impression and to make the secondary impression and the recording of the intermaxillary relationship during the same appointment, thus reducing the number and time of sessions, all…