Guide plane retention in removable partial dentures
Date
2011
Authors
Mothopi, Matshediso M
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Abstract
Purpose:
The purpose of this study was to measure and compare the influence of abutment teeth
guide planes and partial denture guiding surfaces on the retention of removable partial
dentures.
Method:
An upper typodont model was modified by removing both second premolars and first
molars, thus creating two bounded saddles. An impression of the model was made with
irreversible hydrocolloid and a cast poured, on which an acrylic resin based removable
partial denture (RPD) was made. To this denture a hooking device was added so that the
model and denture could be placed on a custom-made platform and jig on a universal
testing machine (Instron, UK). The RPD was then removed from the model along its
path of insertion (perpendicular to the occlusal plane) as well as at 2° and 5° and the
maximum load recorded. The typodont model was then modified by making guide
planes on the abutment teeth, and a second RPD made and the procedure repeated. This
RPD was then modified by creating guiding surfaces directly against the guide planes
using autopolymerising resin, and the procedure again repeated. Each measurement was
made 10 times at each path of insertion/withdrawal, resulting in 90 measurements.
Results
There were some differences between the different paths of withdrawal in each of the
three situations, explicable by the lack of ideal contact in the first two dentures, and the
much improved contact in the third, which caused the teeth in the model to move on
withdrawal. Overall,there were significant differences between the three models. There
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was a significant increase in retentive force of 1.6 times from denture 1 to denture 2, of
7.6 times from denture 2 to denture 3, and 12.3 times from denture 1 to denture 3.
Conclusion
This study confirmed that guide planes increase the retention of an RPD, but that when
guiding surfaces of the denture are adapted closely to the guide planes on the teeth,
there is a considerable increase in retention
Description
A research report submitted for partial completion of Masters in
Dentistry in Prosthodontics