1Mds, Civil Hospital, India
2Private Practise, Noida
3Private Practise, Dehradoon
4Reader, Department of Orthodontics, JCD Dental College, Sirsa, India
Online published on 6 September, 2018.
A severely resorbed mandible poses a clinical challenge for thefabrication of a successful complete denture. This article includes a laboratory procedure to make a hollow space between the two halves of the mandibular denture in order to reduce the weight of the prosthesis, which in turn exerted less pressure on the already resorbed mandibular ridge.
Severely resorbed mandibular ridge, hollow mandibular denture, reduced load on the ridge
