Care of Impressions and Making Casts
Care of Impressions and Making Casts
Care of Impressions and Making Casts
Georges SAYEGH
Content
Definitions
Impression making
Cast fabrication
Procedures
Requisites
Types
Trouble shooting guide
Impression Making
Impression making skill is important when diagnostic casts
are required as part of planned therapy for the patient.
An irreversible hydrocolloid impression material, also
known as “alginate” is used for making impression for
diagnostic casts.
CAST FABRICATION
Cast Fabrication by the Modified Two Stage Technique.
Step 1) Measure the stone by weighing 100 g of dental stone in the
rubber bowl on the lab scale.
Be sure to "zero out" the weight of the bowl prior to measuring stone.
Step 2) Place the premeasured artificial dental stone and water into the
vacuum, power mixer bowl.
Completely, incorporate the water and powder with the large spatula to
wet all the powder.
The consistency of the stone should be thick enough so that you can
turn the bowl upside down and the stone will not run out.(creamy
consistency).
Step 3: First Pour With gentle vibration from the dental vibrator,
use the small metal spatula or laboratory brush to add small
increments of mixed dental stone to the impression.
Begin at one distal end and allow the stone to fill each tooth
individually.
The stone will be completely set after 45 min. but you can pour a
base after about 20 min.
Step 4: Second pour After the required time, soak the cast (First pour)
in water before beginning the second pour. Once the cast has been
soaked for several minutes, measure stone and water as before and
vacuum mix.
Place the mixed stone on the plastic plate and build a "patty" to a
thickness of approximately 25 mm
Gently, invert the poured impression into the patty.
With gentle hand vibration slightly push the impression into the patty.
Diagnostic Casts
A life size reproduction of a part or parts of the oral
cavity and/or facial structures for the purpose of study
and treatment planning.
Diagnostic casts are artificial stone replicas of the
patient.
these will include the soft and hard tissues of the
maxillary and mandibular jaws.
These are usually made from Type III artificial dental
stone but can be made from all types except Type II,
impression plaster. Practically, they are not made from
Type II stone, model plaster, due to its poor physical
properties.
Uses of Diagnostic Casts
Diagnostic or study casts are used to plan treatment for patients.
individual uses for this purpose including: occlusal analysis, soft tissue
assessment for prosthodontics, periodontics, oral surgery, and
orthodontics, hard tissue assessment for occlusion, and fabrication of
splints, custom trays, provisional restorations, and other
Requisites for casts
All casts for removable partial dentures should exhibit the
following qualities.
1-All surfaces to be contacted by the prosthesis should be
accurate and free of voids and nodules. Removal of nodules
resulting from voids or bubbles in the impression is essential,
but hand carving in critical areas is not acceptable.
2-The surface of the cast should be hard ,dense and free of any
grinding sludge left by the cast trimmer.
3-The cast extensions should include all of the area available
for denture support, for example,3 to 4 mm beyond the
hamular notches on maxillary cast ,and 3 to 4 mm beyond the
retromolar pad on the mandibular cast.
4-The peripheral roll should be complete and approximately 3 to 4 mm deep.
5-Side walls of the cast should be vertical and may be tapered slightly outward but
should not be undercut.
6-The base of the cast should be not less than 15 mm thick at the thinnest place and
the lingual region of mandibular cast should be trimmed flat and smooth .The
lingual peripheral roll,however,should not be removed .The cast should show no
indications of having been wet, washed ,or brushed in tap water.
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