Abstract
Patient: The patient was a 73-year-old woman with a chief complaint of discomfort when wearing dentures. There was no indication that residual teeth or the prosthesis were causing the symptom; the symptom was thought to be caused by excessive occlusal vertical dimension. Thus, a treatment denture was used to adjust the occlusal vertical dimension, and it resolved the discomfort.
Discussion: The occlusal vertical dimension without any discomfort was 3 mm smaller than that with the symptom at the initial visit. A facial measurement method alone may have been used by a former practitioner to determine the occlusal vertical dimension when producing a new prosthesis.
Conclusion: In this patient with non-vertical stop occlusion and inadequate occlusal vertical dimension, the treatment denture effectively resolved the symptom.
