CADCAM
CADCAM
CADCAM
LEARNING OBJECTIVE :
To impart knowledge of recent developments in techniques
and materials used for removable partial denture treatment.
LEARNING OUTCOME :
Students will develop skills and attitude of the latest CAD/CAM
technology, newer materials and techniques used in removable
prosthesis.
MUST KNOW AREA - IN
MODULE
• Use of CAD/CAM technology in removable partial
dentures
• Indications and disadvantages of flexible removable
partial
dentures
GOOD TO KNOW AREA – IN
MODULE
• Various components of CAD/CAM technology
• Material science behind flexible partial
denture
• PEEK
• INTRODUCTION
• Dr. Duret was the first to develop dental CAD/CAM. He began to fabricate
crowns with an optical impression of abutment followed by designing and
milling.
CAD/CAM
COMPONENTS
Data Acquisition Unit /
Collects Scanner
the data from the area of the preparation, adjacent and opposing
structures and then converts them to virtual
impressions
iTero (Align Technology), PlanScan
Intra- (Planmeca), CS 3500 (Carestream Dental
LLC), and Trios (3 shape)
Scanne Oral
r Extra-Oral Lava Scan ST ( 3M ESPE), Everest Scan
( KaVo),
Es1 (etkon)
Design
o Software
Software
turn the captured images into a digital model to
produce and design the prosthesis.
3. Allergic to Nickel
o Thermoplastic Acetal
o Thermoplastic Polycarbonate
o Thermoplastic Acrylic
o Thermoplastic Nylon
• Commercially Available
Lucitone FRS, Flexite, Flexite plus, Flexite M.P. , Sun flex, Pro flex.
FRPDs versus Cast Partial Dentures
versus
Conventional Rigid Acrylic Dentures
Manipulation And
Design
Polyethylene
glycol, Polymethyl
Cobalt-chromium methacrylate
2. Campbell SD, Cooper L, Craddock H, Hyde TP, Nattress B, Pavitt SH, Seymour DW. Removable
partial dentures: The clinical need for innovation. The Journal of prosthetic dentistry. 2017 Sep
1;118(3):273-80.
3. Williams RJ, Bibb R, Eggbeer D, Collis J. Use of CAD/CAM technology to fabricate a removable
partial denture framework. The Journal of prosthetic dentistry. 2006 Aug 1;96(2):96-9.
4. Sharma A, Shashidhara HS. A review: Flexible removable partial dentures. J Dent Med Sci. 2014
Dec;13(12):58-62.
5. Harb IE, Abdel‐Khalek EA, Hegazy SA. CAD/CAM constructed poly (etheretherketone)(PEEK)
framework of Kennedy class I removable partial denture: a clinical report. Journal of
Prosthodontics. 2019 Feb;28(2):e595-8.