Dental Laboratory Equipment for Making Different Dentures
We visit the dentist for a number of reasons. Some might have met an accident where they hurt themselves and chipped off a few teeth. It can also be because of old age where you have lost a few or all of your teeth. Commonly, the dentist can provide some quick fixes for you when you go to their office for treatment. At other times, you would need to come back for a series of treatments before the treatment is made final.
Dental Laboratories for Removable Dentures
Many patients are aware that dental laboratories provide assistance to dentists especially with prosthesis work. Many times you would see a variety of tools and equipment in these offices designed to create and shape materials into tooth-like form.
When making removable dentures, you will find denture flasks, bench presses and huge containers where resin materials are combined with pontics to help create a removable partial or full denture. The false teeth you see worn by your grandparent is made of synthetic resin materials which went through a series of steps to make it into what you see now, including molding and curing procedures. Finally, when the denture is cured, it passes through especially designed trimmers. Finally, after the denture is trimmed down to the right size, a polisher is then used to make sure that the final product is free of sharp and rough edges that will hurt the patient’s soft oral structures. Technicians have to be extra careful about the polisher because too much pressure may cause damage to the false teeth, which compromises the quality and strength of the product.
Dental Laboratories for Fixed Dentures
Dentists also rely on dental laboratories for jacket crowns and restorative onlays and inlays. These are fixed dentures and restorative materials. Dental technicians are master artists when it comes to creating jacket crowns. From a base of metal, the technician carefully adds layer upon layer of different types of porcelain or fiberoptic materials to simulate the outside appearance of a tooth. After which, it is placed in curing equipment which looks like ovens where the material hardens and is eventually shipped to dental offices for initial fitting.
In a way, you could say that dental laboratories are like factories where you find man and machines in one place to create masterpieces. That is why dentistry is both a science and an art for practitioners and dental technicians.
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