[Retention of a complete denture by the enclave method. Convergent enclaves]

The authors propose a technical variant of the method of enclaves for the retention of the full denture, this in the inferior maxilla because it is there that the problem of retention is posed with the greatest acuity and frequency. But whereas in the processes described the enclaves, 2 in number, corresponding with the zone of implantation of the canines, are perpendicular to the mandible in the frontal and sagittal planes, in the technique explained here each of the enclaves makes with the mandible, in the frontal plane, an angle of 10 degrees with respect to the median axis, thus leading to a convergence and hence an increased retention of the prosthesis with which they are connected.