[New manufacturing of full dentures in a digital workflow - A case report]

Due to demographic changes the proportion of elderly and very old, edentolous patients in need of care increases. More­ over, implant supported dentures are in many cases unfeasible for various reasons. Therefore, new time­ and cost­efficient strategies for manufacturing complete dentures are required. In this case report the Baltic Denture System, a new CAD/CAM process to manufacture complete dentures with standardized dental set­ups was tested. In the first appointment, a combi­ nation of functional impression as well as bite registration was carried out by means of specified registration devices, the BDKeys®. Subsequently, the relined and locked Upper and Low­ er Keys are transferred to the dental laboratory, digitized and the new dentures are milled from special blanks. In the second appointment the patient received the finished dentures. De­ spite some difficulties in the impression/registration step the patient was provided with very appealing new digital dentures. Thus, the Baltic Denture System might be an interesting new CAD/CAM alternative for manufacturing of complete dentures.