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- Title
Retention in mandibular overdentures with attachments.
- Authors
El Samahi, Mahmoud M.
- Abstract
The article focuses on a study to compare the retention in mandibular dentures with three types of resilient overdenture attachments, a Hader bar, Zest anchors and Magne-Dent magnetic attachments, using a mechanical force gauge. It states that an overdenture is designed to use the tooth roots as abutments and to distribute the occlusal forces between the teeth and the edentulous areas. It mentions that the resilient attachments are designed to provide vertical movement and rotation of the denture base in order to distribute the occlusal forces between the abutments and soft tissue. According to the study, the Hader bar attachment gave more retention against vertical displacement than the intracoronal Zest anchor attachment and the closed-field magnetic system.
- Subjects
OVERLAY dentures; DENTAL abutments; DENTAL occlusion; TOOTH roots; TOOTH loss; MANDIBULAR prosthesis; EDENTULOUS mouth; DENTAL research; PROSTHODONTICS
- Publication
Quintessence International, 1986, Vol 17, Issue 4, p249
- ISSN
0033-6572
- Publication type
Article