The present invention relates to a full denture base manufacturing method that can easily manufacture a full denture base, using a set of a maxillary impression tray and a mandibular impression tray.
Generally, in odontotherapy, when taking an intraoral impression in a preparation stage of manufacturing prostheses, an impression material such as silicone impression materials, alginate impression materials, and the like is used. An impression tray is used to intraorally hold such an impression material. The impression material is applied on the impression tray that is inserted into an oral cavity of a patient, and after the impression material is pressed for taking an impression and is set, the impression tray is removed from the oral cavity of the patient in a state in which the set impression material is integrally held on the impression tray.
When taking such an impression from an edentulous patient (including a substantially edentulous patient), the impression must be taken from an alveolar ridge that forms a smooth curve. In this case, an extremely high accuracy is required, such as when pressing the impression material against the alveolar ridge with a uniform force.
For this reason, in order to more accurately take the intraoral impression, the impression is in many cases taken twice from the edentulous patient.
More particularly, a first impression is taken from the alveolar ridge by first using a general impression tray, and an edentulous jaw model is thereafter manufactured from the set impression material. Then, an impression tray (hereinafter referred to as a personal tray) exclusively for the edentulous patient is manufactured from the edentulous jaw model.
Next, the impression material is thinly applied on the personal tray, and a second impression is taken from the alveolar ridge, in order to manufacture a more accurate edentulous jaw model from the impression.
In the case of an edentulous patient, bite position and height must be determined separately because the edentulous patient has no teeth. Hence, a large number of processes, including measurements made from outside the face using a measuring apparatus and the like, determining the bite position and height by reflecting measured data to the edentulous jaw model on an articulator, and the like, are carried out in order to finally manufacture a full denture base.
As the impression tray for use in taking the impression from the edentulous patient, there is an impression tray for maxillary mucosa of the edentulous patient, applied with an utility wax, and including a peripheral wall part having an edge that makes contact with each mucosa at a bottom of a valley-shaped part between a cheek and a maxillary alveolar ridge of the patient having the edentulous alveolar ridge, and at an inner part of an maxillopalatine lower surface, a bottom plate part connected to a large portion of an edge on an opposite side from the edge of the peripheral wall part and provided with an impression material injection opening only at a part near the alveolar ridge at a front part of the peripheral wall part, and a handle provided on the front part of the peripheral wall part (refer to Patent Document 1, for example).
This impression tray for maxillary mucosa is for use in supplying and setting a slurry of a plaster impression material in order to take an accurate impression in a non-pressure state, and is applied with the utility wax so that the slurry of the impression material does not drop or leak from the impression tray (refer to paragraphs 0002-0005 of specification of Patent Document 1), and the impression only needs to be taken once.
However, this impression tray is merely for taking the impression of the alveolar ridge (refer to paragraph 0001 of specification of Patent Document 1), and no data can be obtained with respect to the bite position and height. For this reason, the full denture base cannot be manufactured by simply taking the impression using this impression tray, and as in the conventional case, the bite position and height must be determined through separate measurements and the like.
One object of the present invention is to provide a full denture base manufacturing method that can easily manufacture a full denture base, using a set of a maxillary impression tray and a mandibular impression tray for use in taking an impression of a patient including an edentulous patient.
As a result of diligent research conducted to solve the problem described above, the present inventors found that when an impression material is applied on each of a maxillary impression tray and a mandibular impression tray configuring a set of impression trays and respectively having a U-shaped groove, the U-shaped groove having a front surface side on which the impression material is to be applied and being provided with projecting parts on a back surface side thereof, the applied impression material is pressed against an alveolar ridge within an oral cavity and set, and bite position and height are determined in a state in which at least a part of flat top surfaces of the projecting parts contact each other, the bite position and height can easily be determined simultaneously as when the impression is taken. In addition, the present inventors found that when a second impression material is applied between back surfaces of the impression trays and set in a state in which at least a part of the flat top surfaces contact each other, data related to the bite position and height can easily be copied and transferred to the impression material. Furthermore, the present inventors found that when each of the impression trays and the impression material are removed from within the oral cavity in one piece of the maxillary and mandibular impression trays, or separately in two pieces of the maxillary and mandibular impression trays, and a model material is thereafter injected to each impression material on the removed maxillary and mandibular impression trays and set in order to manufacture an edentulous jaw model, and the edentulous jaw model is set on an articulator in a state in which the bite position and height that are determined in advance are reflected in order to manufacture a full denture base, processes that need to be carried out separately, such as determining the bite position and height, can be omitted, and the full denture base can be manufactured quickly and with ease. The present inventors completed the present invention based on these findings.
In other words, a full denture base manufacturing method according to the present invention is characterized by applying an impression material on each of a maxillary impression tray and a mandibular impression tray configuring a set of impression trays, and respectively having a U-shaped groove, the U-shaped groove having a front surface side on which the impression material is to be applied and being provided with projecting parts on a back surface side thereof; pressing the impression material against an alveolar ridge within an oral cavity and setting the impression material, and determining bite position and height in a state in which at least a part of flat top surfaces of the projecting parts contact each other; applying a second impression material between back surfaces of the impression trays in a state in which at least a part of the flat top surfaces contact each other; setting the second impression material; removing each of the impression trays and the impression material from within the oral cavity in one piece of the maxillary and mandibular impression trays, or separately in two pieces of the maxillary and mandibular impression trays, and thereafter injecting a model material to each impression material on the removed maxillary and mandibular impression trays and setting the model material in order to manufacture an edentulous jaw model; and setting the edentulous jaw model on an articulator in a state in which the bite position and height that are determined in advance are reflected in order to manufacture a full denture base.
The full denture base manufacturing method according to the present invention applies an impression material on each of a maxillary impression tray and a mandibular impression tray configuring a set of impression trays and respectively having a U-shaped groove, the U-shaped groove having a front surface side on which the impression material is to be applied and being provided with projecting parts on a back surface side thereof, presses the applied impression material against an alveolar ridge within an oral cavity and sets the impression material, and determines bite position and height in a state in which at least a part of flat top surfaces of the projecting parts contact each other. Hence, the bite position and height can easily be determined simultaneously as when the impression is taken. In addition, the present invention applies a second impression material between back surfaces of the impression trays and sets the second impression material in a state in which at least a part of the flat top surfaces contact each other. Thus, data related to the bite position and height can easily be copied and transferred to the impression material. Furthermore, the present invention removes each of the impression trays and the impression material from within the oral cavity in one piece of the maxillary and mandibular impression trays, or separately in two pieces of the maxillary and mandibular impression trays, and thereafter injects a model material to each impression material on the removed maxillary and mandibular impression trays and sets the model material in order to manufacture an edentulous jaw model, and sets the edentulous jaw model on an articulator in a state in which the bite position and height that are determined in advance are reflected in order to manufacture a full denture base. For this reason, processes that need to be carried out separately, such as determining the bite position and height, can be omitted, and the full denture base can be manufactured quickly and with ease.
A detailed description will hereinafter be given of the full denture base manufacturing method according to the present invention, by referring to the drawings. In the drawings, An U-shaped groove 2 has a front surface side on which an impression material is to be applied and provided with projecting parts 1 on a back surface side thereof. In addition, the projecting part 1 has a flat top surface 1a, as illustrated in
When the projecting parts 1 are provided on the back surface of each of a maxillary impression tray 3 and a mandibular impression tray 4 which will be described later, at the U-shaped groove 2 for positioning each of left and right alveolar ridges from a first molar part to a premolar part, a pair of projecting parts 1 is arranged on the left and right at approximately an intermediate part between the front teeth and the molars. Hence, by adjusting positions in a state in which at least a part of the flat top surfaces 1a of the projecting parts 1 contact each other, positions of the maxillary impression tray 3 and the mandibular impression tray 4 can be determined at various bite positions and heights.
Each of the maxillary impression tray 3 and the mandibular impression tray 4 is provided with the projecting parts 1 and the U-shaped groove 2 described above. As illustrated in
Further, when a handle part 6 of each of the impression trays 3 and 4 is made to be detachable as illustrated in
Next, a detailed description will be given of the full denture base manufacturing method according to the present invention, which uses the set of the maxillary impression tray 3 and the mandibular impression tray 4.
First, when using each of the impression trays 3 and 4 to take the impression, the impression may be taken carefully once, or the impression may be taken twice for more accuracy. Even in the case in which the impression is taken twice, it is not a precondition in the full denture base manufacturing method according to the present invention to manufacture a personal tray other than each of the impression trays 3 and 4. Hence, after the first impression is taken by the the maxillary impression tray 3 and the mandibular impression tray 4, a new impression material is thinly applied on the top surface of the impression material on the impression trays 3 and 4 in order to take the second impression.
As illustrated in
When taking the impression in this manner, the patient is urged to bite while gradually moving the maxillary impression tray 3 and the mandibular impression tray 4 within the oral cavity, in order to look for an appropriate bite position and height at the position where the top surfaces 1a of the projecting parts 1 of the maxillary impression tray 3 and the mandibular impression tray 4 make contact with each other.
In this case, the bite position and height may be determined after the impression material applied on the maxillary impression tray 3 and the mandibular impression tray 4 sufficiently set, or the bite position and height may be determined in a state in which the impression material is not yet completely set.
When the projecting part 1 is formed so that a longitudinal direction thereof matches a ridge line direction at the back surface of the U-shaped groove 2 as illustrated in
The projecting parts 1 may be integrally formed on the maxillary impression tray 3 and the mandibular impression tray 4 in advance, as illustrated in
After the bite position and height are determined in the above described manner, a second impression material is applied between the back surfaces of the maxillary impression tray 3 and the mandibular impression tray 4 and set (
The second impression material to be applied between the back surfaces of the impression trays 3 and 4 may be applied on the front teeth side as illustrated in
The impression trays 3 and 4 and the impression material, whose positions are fixed, are removed from within the oral cavity in one piece of the maxillary and mandibular impression trays, or separately in two pieces of the maxillary and mandibular impression trays. In a case in which the maxillary and mandibular impression trays in one piece is too large, for example, and the removal in one piece from the oral cavity is difficult, the set second impression material provided between the back surfaces of the impression trays 3 and 4 may be left on one of the impression trays 3 and 4 when removing them separately, and the bite position and height can easily be reproduced by combining the two impression trays 3 and 4 after their removal.
Next, a model material is injected to each impression material on the removed maxillary and mandibular impression trays and set, in order to manufacture an edentulous jaw model. This edentulous jaw model is set on an articulator in a state in which the bite position and height that are determined in advance are reflected, and the full denture base can thereafter be manufactured according to a known method. Hence, processes conventionally carried out to determine the bite position and height can be omitted, and the full denture base can be manufactured quickly and with ease.
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