1Professor & HOD, Dept. of Prosthodontics, Sibar Institute of Dental Sciences, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh
2Professor, Dept. of Prosthodontics, Sibar Institute of Dental Sciences, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh
3Assistant Professor, Dept. of Prosthodontics, Sibar Institute of Dental Sciences, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh
4PG Student, Dept. of Prosthodontics, Sibar Institute of Dental Sciences, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh
A prosthesis delivered should cater to the needs of the patient and also meet the biological, mechanical, and esthetic considerations. Care should be taken in the formulation of treatment plan that the planned prosthesis fulfills the requirements of the patient and the dentist. Among the various methods of oral rehabilitation precision attachments are viable alternative to join fixed (FDP) and cast partial dentures (CPD) and thereby avoiding cumbersome procedures. The advantages of attachment retained CPD are the improvements in esthetics which eliminates the clasp assembly and biomechanics. This article describes the treatment sequence and technique for the use of attachments in therapy of combining FDP/CPD of patient reported with dislodged cantilever fixed prosthesis.
