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Fabrication of a Surgical Stent for Bilateral Tuberosity and Mandibular Alveolar Reduction
Author(s) -
Markt Jeffery C.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of prosthodontics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.902
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1532-849X
pISSN - 1059-941X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-849x.1999.tb00049.x
Subject(s) - medicine , stent , occlusion , orthodontics , reduction (mathematics) , dentistry , surgery , mathematics , geometry
A technique for constructing a single surgical stent to direct bilateral preprosthetic maxillary tuberosity reductions and mandibular alveolectomies is presented. The stent is fabricated using unaltered articulated definitive casts. The stent allows the oral surgeon to replicate the desired vertical dimension of occlusion for a thorough assessment of the sufficiency of the surgical revisions. The situation illustrated is unique, in that preoperatively, the patient's maxillary tuberosities were situated inferior and medial to their ipsilateral retromolar pads.