Donovan’s Profile

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Active 11 years, 4 months ago
Donovan
Display Name
Donovan
Major Program of Study
Restorative Dentistry
Bio

Donovan Garcia started attending City Tech Fall 2011. He came into the school wanting to become a Dental Hygienist. After researching, and looking farther into all the work that is done to become a dental hygienist and how hard it was just to get into the program, He then switched into Restrotive Dentistry. The switch not only made him happier, but made him realize he was better off in this program. He is committed to finishing the program and some day owning his own Dental Lab and or go as far as owning his own dental office and/or becoming a dentist.

My Courses

RESD Complete Dentures I

RESD Complete Dentures I

Complete Denture I is an introduction to basic techniques of full denture construction. This course will include anatomical terminology as it relates to full denture construction, fabricating of custom impression trays, constructing baseplates and occlusal rims, articulating casts, set-up of maxillary and mandibular opposing wax trial dentures using anatomical artificial teeth, festooning and contouring of full wax trial denture bases.

My Projects

Festooning

Festooning

Finish setup of maxillary and mandibular teeth, and setup to festoon

Occlusal Rims

Occlusal Rims

the occlusal rims were made with baseplate wax. The occlusal rims purpose is to create the space where the natural teeth once was. First make the record bases, My maxillary record base was made out of shellac material and my mandible out of light cure material. I placed the shellac material on the maxillary, I had to heat up the shellac using use the Bunsen burner and press down, not stretch the material on it to get the anatomical features. For my mandible we had to use light cure traid material. The material was very soft and had to be molded quick because it would harden if left out under the light. We used this special curing machine5 minutes facing up I had to trim the edges of my light cure material because it was too sharp and couldn’t go into the patients mouth because it would cut them. I then went on to making the occlusal rims. We used a special wax called baseplate, we folded the wax 3 times in half while heating it so it would not crack. I than began stretching it out a bit. After that i placed the baseplate wax on the maximally cast, i had to place it on the residual ridge and make sure it was lined up correctly, i did the same exact steps for my mandibular. After we placed the occlusal rims we had to cut them and melt them down to its set measurements. The maxillary rim has an anterior height of 22mm and a posterior height of 18mm. The anterior width should be 6-8mm and the posterior width should 8-10mm. For the mandible rim, the anterior and posterior height should be 18mm all around. The anterior and posterior width should be the same as the maxillary width.

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