SELECTION OF ARTIFICIAL

TEETH
SELECTION OF ARTIFICIAL
TEETH
• INTRODUCTION

IT COMPRISES OF
• ANTERIOR TOOTH SELECTION
• POSTERIOR TOOTH SELECTION
 ANTERIOR TEETH
SELECTION
• A SMILE IS THE MOST VISIBLE RECORD OF A
DENTIST’S CARE OF EDENTULOUS PATIENT
• PSYCHOLOGY OF ACCEPTANCE:GIVE
PATIENT WHAT THEY WANT
• FIND OUT EARLY WHAT IT IS THAT PATIENT
WANTS
• FIND OUT WHAT THE PATIENT TEETH
WHERE LIKE
• LET DICISION MAKER CHOOSE THE TEETH
 DIAGNOSTIC AID IN
SELECTION OF TEETH
• PRE-EXTRACTION RECORDS
• POST-EXTRACTION RECORDS

• SIZE OF TEETH
• LENGTH OF TEETH
• FORM OF TEETH
• COLOR OF TEETH
PRE EXTRACTION RECORDS
• DIAGNOSTIC CAST

• PRE EXTRACTION
PHOTOGRAPH

• INTRA ORAL
RADIOGRAPH
 POSTEXTRACTION
RECORDS
• PRESERVED
EXTRACTED
TEETH

• TEETH OF CLOSE
RELATIVES
 SIZE OF ANTERIOR TEETH
• BIZYGOMATIC WIDTH

• WIDTH OF UPPER
CENTRAL
INCISOR…..GREATEST
BIGYGOMATIC WIDTH\16

• TOTAL WIDTH OFUPPER

ANTERIORS……
GREATEST
BIZYGOMATIC WIDTH\
3.3
• BASED ON WIDTH
OF NOSE
• LOCATION OF
CORNER OF
MOUTH
• TRUBYTE TOOTH
INDICATOR
• MOLD SELECTOR
 LENGTH OF ANTERIOR
TEETH
• THE LIPS

• MAXILOMANDIBULAR RELATIONS

• VERTICAL HEIGHT OF OCCLUSION

• VERTICAL OVERLAP
FORM OF ANTERIOR TEETH
• LEON WILLIAMS
CLASSIFICATION
• LABIAL FACE OF
TEETH VIEWED
FROM MESIAL
ASPECT
• LABIAL FACE OF
TEETH VIEWED
FROM INCISAL
EDGE
 DENTOGENIC CONCEPTS
• IT WAS GIVEN BY FRUSH AND
FISHER IN 1950’S
• IT IS BASED ON :
SEX
PERSONALITY
AGE
 Color of teeth
COLOR has four qualities which are involved
in teeth selection
HUE
SATURATION (chroma)
BRILLIANCE(value)
TRANSLUCENCY
 Selecting the color of artificial
teeth
• OUTSIDE THE MOUTH ALONG THE SIDE OF
THE NOSE

• UNDER THE LIPS WITH ONLY INCISAL

EDGE EXPOSED

• UNDER THE LIPS WITH ONLY CERVICAL

END COVERED AND THE MOUTH OPEN
OUTSIDE THE MOUTH
ALONG SIDE OF NOSE
UNDER THE LIPS WITH
ONLY INCISAL EDGE
EXPOSED
 UNDER THE LIPS WITH
CERVICAL END COVERED
AND MOUTH OPEN
 POSTERIOR TEETH
SELECTION
• BUCCOLINGUAL WIDTH OF POSTERIOR
TEETH
• MESIODISTAL LENGTH OF POSTERIOR
TEETH
• VERTICAL HEIGHT OF BUCCAL SURFACE OF
POSTERIOR TEETH
• TYPE OF POSTERIOR TEETH ACCORDING TO
CUSP INCLINES
• TYPE OF POSTERIOR TEETH ACCORDING TO
MATERIAL
• ACRYLIC TEETH • PORCELAIN TEETH
• ABRASION • ABRASION
RESISTANCE…..LOW RESISTANCE….HIGH
• BONDING….CHEMICAL • BONDING….MECHANICAL
• STAINING….EASILY • STAINING….DOES NOT
STAINED STAIN
• TRAUMA TO DENTURE • TRAUMA TO DENTURE
BEARING TISSUE….LESS BEARING TISSUE….MORE
• FABRICATUON….EASY • FABRICATION….DIFFICUL
T
• CLICKING • CLICKING SOUND…
SOUND….ABSENT PRESENT
 REFERENCES
• SYLLABUS OF COMPLETE DENTURES…..
HEARTWELL
• CLINICAL DENTAL PROSTHETICS…..FENN AND
GIMSON’S
• PROSTHODONTIC TREATMENT FOR EDENTULOUS
PATIENTS….. BOUCHER’S
• TEXTBOOK OF
PROSTHODONTICS…..NALLASWAMY
• DCNA….1996
• JOURNAL OF PROSTHETIC DENTISTRY…
1955,1956,1957