EVALUATION OF TWO DIFFERENT TECHNIQUES AND MATERIALS OF REPAIR FOR DENTURE BASE: AN IN VITRO STUDY

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Dept Of Removable Prosthodontics, Al-Azhar University, Boys, Cario, Egypt

2 Dept Of Dental Materials, Al-Azhar University, Boys, Cario, Egypt

Abstract

The objective of this study was to evaluate of two different techniques and materials of repair for denture base. Thirty –six maxillary complete denture were constructed from final impression for different ready-made casts standard model, all maxillary denture were divided into two groups.
Group (I): Eighteen conventional heat cure acrylic resin denture. Group (II): Eighteen
microwave polymerized acrylic dentures base resin. Complete dentures were fractured ad prepared for repairing with different design(dove tail, bevel, butt) .Two repair materials were used to repair fractured dentures with different designs :Self cure acrylic esin and self cure acrylic resin reinforced with silver nan-particles.