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Possible Errors During Impression Making: 1-Poor Tray Selection
Possible Errors During Impression Making: 1-Poor Tray Selection
Introduction
Impression making is the first and foremost step in diagnosis and treatment
planning. A good impression will produce a cast that will apprise the
practitioner of the need of patient and the prognosis of the proposed
treatment.It is to be agreed that time spent in making a good impression will
reduce the time required in adjusting the final prosthesis in the mouth as well as
make it more comfortable for the patient inaccepting the artificial
prosthesis.Ideal outcome of the impression must be borne in the mind of the
dentist before it is in his hand. He must literally make the impression rather than
take it.(1)
The most common dental impression errors include:
References
1- Nishant Gaba , Khurshid Ahmed Mattoo , Errors in Impression making , Lambert Academic
Publishing 2014.
2- Bill Warner , MOST COMMON DENTAL IMPRESSION ERRORS AND HOW TO AVOID THEM , Dental
Techniques , 2019
3- Gregori M. Kurtzman ,DDS , Identifying and Managing Dantal impression problems, Dantal Academy
of Continuing Education ,2018