Flexing for Esthetics

By LMT Communications, Inc.

Posted Sep 13, 2023 in Industry News

Though first developed in the 1950s by Arpad Nagy of Valplast, flexible partial dentures didn’t take off until the 1980s; as the cosmetic wave hit dentistry, dentists and patients alike looked for solutions that were both functional and esthetic. Today, flexible dentures make up 22% of the average workload for full service and removable laboratories, according to LMT’s 2022 Removable Survey, and demand for these restorations is on the rise.

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