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Denture tooth selection: size matching of natural anterior tooth width with artificial denture teeth
A M LaVere1, K R Marcroft, R C Smith
1Department of Removable Prosthodontics, University of the Pacific, School of Dentistry, San Francisco, Calif.
The Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry
|October 1, 1994
Abstract:
This project, conducted by the Removable Prosthodontic faculty, compared the mesiodistal widths of the six maxillary anterior teeth with the widths of denture teeth from six different denture tooth manufacturers. Four hundred eighty-eight casts of dental students were measured from the distal aspect of each canine across the facial surfaces of the six anterior teeth with a flexible plastic millimeter rule. Denture teeth from six manufacturers were compared (370 molds). The results indicated that denture teeth are predominantly smaller and natural teeth are larger.