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2. Complete dentures - Wikipedia

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   Suitable materials for this purpose include high-viscosity silicone impression materials. The ultimate goal of complete dentures is to maintain oral health and function. Complete dentures should be comfortable for the individual while also improving aesthetics and psychological well-being.

3. Dental impression - Wikipedia

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   An impression body, made from alginate impression material. A custom dental model or plaster cast. A dental impression is a negative imprint of hard and soft tissues in the mouth from which a positive reproduction, such as a cast or model, can be formed. It is made by placing an appropriate material in a dental impression tray which is designed ...

4. Zinc oxide eugenol - Wikipedia

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   Zinc oxide eugenol is also used as an impression material during construction of complete dentures and is used in the mucostatic technique of taking impressions, usually in a special tray, (acrylic) produced after primary alginate impressions. However, ZOE is not usually used if the patient has large undercuts or tuberosities, whereby silicone ...

5. Polyvinyl siloxane - Wikipedia

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   It is also used in other contexts where an impression similar to a dental impression is needed, such as in audiology (to take ear impressions for fitting custom hearing protection or hearing aids [2]) or in industrial applications (such as to aid in the inspection of interior features of machined parts, for example, internal grooves inside ...

6. Poly(ethyl methacrylate) - Wikipedia

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   It is used as an impression material of ear canals for the fabrication of hearing aids. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] It is also used in dentistry as a chair-side denture reline material for partial and complete dentures as well as a tissue conditioner with implant-supported dentures.

7. Dentures - Wikipedia

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   Dentures can help people via: Mastication: chewing ability is improved by the replacement of edentulous (lacking teeth) areas with denture teeth.; Aesthetics: the presence of teeth gives a natural appearance to the face, and wearing a denture to replace missing teeth provides support for the lips and cheeks and corrects the collapsed appearance that results from the loss of teeth.