Kimmy Pham

ISM- period 6

Johnson, Tony, et al. Basics of Dental Technology: A Step by Step Approach. 2nd ed., John

Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2016.

• Before working in the dental office, you must identify all hazards by enabling dentists to
check on chemicals and the dentist must contemplate long-term harm, such as the noise and
dust.
• Dentist must also decide who could be harmed in the facility of dangerous chemicals and
must consider public if they have access.
• Dentist must also evaluate and see the risks and decide what to do in case of an emergency.
• Dentist should also record risks and do regular maintain check.
• Custom impression prosthetic trays can be made custom made to fit the patient’s mouth.
• After taking a patient’s impression, you then must make a stone sculpture using the patient
impression.
• With a full impression stone, you must have a peripheral outline which must be on the
deepest part of the sulcus.
• Dentist then must fill undercuts with molten denture wax but then you coat the model with a
layer of plaster-separating solution and allow to dry.
• Dentist then must adapt a sheet light-curing prosthetic tray material onto a model.
• Dentist then trim to the on the outline made earlier on the tray. Then remove the prosthetic
tray. While working on this tray, you must be partially hardening under strong light.
• Dentist must also place prosthetic trays in a light box and cure and repeat until the trays
completely harden.
• Then trim the prosthetic tray using an acrylic trimming drill bur to have to produce a rounded
profile. Dentists must ensure that there are no sharp corner to prevent injury.
• After trimming, the dentist will then place the prosthetic tray back onto the model to make
sure the trays fit onto patient’s mouth.
• The dentist should then form a prosthetic tray handler from surplus material and the dentist
should make the handle of the tray extends to the premolar regions and should occupy the
space where the natural teeth were.
• Then make sure the handle and the base of the prosthetic tray are blended before curing the
tray one more time.
• Then sand the prosthetic tray once more then use soapy water and steam to clean the model
to remove wax that was originally on the model.
• Sometimes custom-made prosthetic trays will appear dull and unfinished, to resolve that
issue, dentist will completely rub petroleum jelly all over the tray then light cure the
prosthetic tray. Dentist will then proceed to place the tray into boiling water.
• Some dentists will alternatively put a varnish on the trays for a smooth and glossy finish then
put the prosthetic tray in the curing light.

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