Candulor's Kunstzahnwerk 2025: One Singular Challenge, 62 Different Solutions

More than 60 dental professionals from 10 countries participated in Candulor’s prestigious 14th KunstZahnWerk (KZW), each fabricating an age-appropriate, characterized, esthetic, mucosa-supported maxillary and mandibular full denture for a patient with pronounced atrophy in the lower jaw. In addition to documenting their work, participants had to use the Gerber set-up method (tooth-to-tooth relationship) and submit the finished dentures on a Candulor articulator or a partially or fully adjustable articulator aligned according to the Camper’s plane.

The jury met in a two-day, closed-door session to evaluate the entries, focusing on comprehensible model analysis, tooth setup and denture characterization. “It was impressive to see how some of the prizewinners had thoroughly addressed the issues at hand and arrived at different and creative solutions,” said Oliver Ben, MDT, Head of the Swiss School of Prosthetics, Zurich, Switzerland, who was...