How to Fabricate a Highly Esthetic Partial Denture

With today’s focus on highly cosmetic restorations and appliances, patients want functional, natural-looking removable partial dentures. Proper material selection is a key part of ensuring patient satisfaction.

Treatment Plan:
A female patient in her late 40s was partially edentulous and had PFM restorations with a lot of recession around the gingival areas and some broken porcelain. She was considering implants and new C&B restorations but, in the meantime, wanted to address the edentulous areas in her mouth with an esthetic, cost-effective solution.

The dentist decided to fabricate an acrylic transitional partial for teeth #2-4 and #9-11. I chose to use Keystone’s Itsoclear clasp system; it makes a clear clasp in less than four minutes without expensive equipment and the clarity of the clasp reveals the natural shade of the underlying tooth, making it virtually invisible. To meet the patient’s esthetic expectations, I used Diamond...