2020 Volume 33 Issue 2 Pages 197-201
We report a successful case of a mandibular implant overdenture for a patient whose newly constructed implant overdenture was matched to the old denture by using digital computer aided design (CAD) and the metal reinforcement was also digitally designed (CAD) and fabricated by the laser sintering method.
The patient was a 62-year-old male with the chief complaint of fracture of the mandibular implant overdenture without metal reinforcement. He was satisfied with his present denture, so we repaired it and fabricated a duplicated denture in order to make a new denture. After digitizing the duplicated denture by using a model scanner, the metal reinforcement was also digitally designed (CAD) and fabricated by the laser sintering method using Co-Cr alloy. The new denture was fabricated to be the same as the present denture. One and a half years have passed, there has been no fracture of the denture, and the clinical results are good.
