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Good night, squashbite: a 'how to' paper on better wax occlusal records
Inderjit Shargill1, Martin Ashley
1University Dental Hospital of Manchester, UK.
Abstract:
During the technical stages of dental treatment, a dental technician may only be able to unite a set of dental casts in a 'best-guess' relationship, unless they are either able to examine the patient themselves, or are given further information about the occlusal position chosen during the clinical procedure. The most common method for this is to use some form of occlusal record, which can be created from a variety of techniques and materials, such as either one of the dental waxes or one of the more recently introduced syringable materials. This paper describes a better technique for using dental wax to make occlusal records. The 'squashbite' technique has no place in clinical dentistry for those attempting to obtain accurate results.
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