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Volume 2, Issue 2 (Suppl)
Dent Implants Dentures, an open access journal
ISSN: 2572-4835
Dental Medicine 2017
October 16-18, 2017
October 16-18, 2017 New York, USA
29
th
Annual World Congress on
Dental Medicine & Dentistry
Tempocopy, a protocol to achieve complete oral rehabilitations copying the provisional prosthesis by
means of CAD/CAM
Dirk Neefs
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Europe
Introduction & Aim:
A method to achieve complete oral rehabilitation with predictable success. Applicable to oral rehabilitations
with fixed prosthesis on teeth and/or implants. We use the fixed provisional restorations to determine the centric occlusion and dental
morphology for an optimal functional outcome on a periodontal, phonetic and aesthetic level.
Materials & Methods:
We prepare every case of rehabilitation in a classical way, using die cast models, diagnostic wax up, CBCT
scan, surgical guide and a thermoplastic mold of our wax up in order to achieve provisional methacrylate crowns made intra orally.
In order to deprogram the masticatory muscles and finding the centric occlusion, a Lucia Jig is then incorporated in the provisional
crowns. After a minimal time of 10 minutes the centric position is located. Adding methacrylate posterior occlusal stability and
lateral guidance is optimized. Esthetic and phonetic adaptations are made. If there are neither subjective nor objective problems the
next weeks of follow up, we scan our provisional bridge. This virtual bridge then was positioned on the virtual model and all the
parameters controlled. Finally the technician makes the reduction on the virtual structure for later ceramic covering and this design
is send to the Zirconia milling machine.
Results:
Achieving the occlusion in centric relation, reestablishing the TMJ in its physiological position makes us realize full arch
rehabilitations with a very good long term prognosis.
Conclusion:
The Tempocopy protocol allows us to work with much more predictability in aspects of occlusion, periodontics,
phonetics and aesthetics.
drneefs@yahoo.comDent Implants Dentures 2017, 2:2 (Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2572-4835-C1-003