A case report of a metal base denture for a partially edentulous patient using the FGP technique and bite pressure impressions

Abstract

Patient: A 75-year-old female visited our institution with a chief complaint of detachment of the (6)54(3)21| bridge, in which only the maxillary left central incisor and mandibular right central incisor had occlusal contact with the remaining teeth. The patient was diagnosed with mastication difficulty because of lower denture incompatibility and esthetic failure due to missing maxillary incisors. The functionally generated pathway (FGP) and bite pressure impression techniques were applied after occlusal elevation was achieved with treatment dentures to adjust for the lack of denture space; upper- and lower-jaw metal-base dentures were constructed as final prostheses.

Discussion: The application of the FGP and bite pressure impression techniques may have facilitated the transfer of information, which was obtained using treatment dentures, to the final prostheses.

Conclusion: Objective and subjective functional evaluations at 3 years after the implantation of the last prosthesis were favorable, suggesting that prosthetic treatment for this patient was effective.