METHOD OF PRODUCING AND FITTING COMPLETE DENTURES

摘要

A thermally deformable denture base (10) adapted to be fitted to an edentulous ridge and the surrounding tissue surfaces and a method of producing and fitting complete dentures incorporating the thermally deformable denture base. The denture base (10) has an inner surface (12) and an outer surface (14) and is formed by a molding process from a doughy methacrylate polymer powder in a 1:3-3.5 ratio. When heated to a temperature above about 135 F, the denture base is malleable and may be molded in the mouth of a patient to attain an approximation of the tissue surfaces. The denture base (10) may be incorporated into a complete denture by curing an unpolymerized resin material denture liner to the inner surface (12) of the denture base (10) and affixing teeth to the outer surface (14) of the denture base.