Fixed prosthodontics is a course designed for students to develop the knowledge as well as the skills that are required in order to fabricate multi-unit fixed bridge restorations. Students were trained in methods of handling, treatment and fabrication of full arch casts and dies, trimming and ditching dies, pontic design, spruing, investing, casting, soldering, bridge and bar seating, waxing and developing functioning occlusion, processing composite resin to metal frameworks, finishing and polishing crowns.
Maxillary and mandibular models ready for dies to be cut and mounted on articulator.
Metal primer and foundation opaque applied to facing of metal bridge.
Shade and margin opaque applied and cured.
Applications of opaque dentin and dentin.
Buccal view of application and curing of enamel.
Occlusal view of composite resin.
Pinning of model.
Mounting casts on the Stratos articulator.
Building up pontic area for 3-unit bridge.
3-unit bridges sprued and ready for investing.
Bridges casted using Super12 alloy and sand blasted.
Bridge placed on cast to check fit.
Sequence of finishing and polishing tools from coarse to fine
Fit of bridge checked on dies.
Bridge prepared for soldering after Sprue removal.
Polished and ready for composite facing to be applied.
Soldered bridge.
Occlusal view of polished bridge.
Central Incisor composite crown.
Mandibular first left molar composite onlay crown.
Buccal view of composite molar.
Restorations mounted on Stratos articulator.
