2019 Volume 53 Issue 1 Pages 55-62
The purpose of this study was to determine the impression method with the most favorable occlusal contact reproducibility in the intercuspal position. The subjects were 9 health dentulous adults. We used two types of conventional impression methods, and the full‐arch bite impression method using a prototype tray. We compared the occlusal contacts on each fabricated dental cast with those of each subject. We found that the full‐arch bite impression method resulted in larger values than conventional impression methods in terms of the number of reproducible regions, and resulted in fewer non‐reproducible regions. We concluded that the full‐arch bite impression method was useful for obtaining reproducible occlusal contacts. (J Osaka Dent Univ 2019; 53: 55‐62)
