1Department of Prosthodontics, Rungta College of dental sciences and research centre, Bhilai, Chattisgarh, India.
2Department of Prosthodontics, Chattishgarh Dental College and Research Institute, Rajnandgaon, Chattisgarh, India.
For a patient with xerostomia, wearing dentures can be an extremely uncomfortable experience. To relieve patient‘s complaints from xerostomia, mucin-containing artificial saliva has been developed long back. Different techniques have been proposed for incorporating reservoirs in the dentures, containing salivary substitutes, in the dentures. A new design for a split- reservoir denture is described in this article that maximizes capacity and is easy to clean by the wearer and was produced from routine denture materials.
xerostomia, split- reservoir denture
