This presentation includes an introduction, types of impression, requirements of impression, types of trays, the difference between the stock tray and custom tray, the difference between primary and secondary impression, classification impression, classification of impression material and digital impression
3. Impression
• An impression is an exact negative replica of the oral structure
with an accurate reproduction of all the finer details maintaining
the correct spatial dimensions.
4. Purpose of Making Impression
• Many dental appliances are constructed outside the patient’s
mouth on a cast of hard and / or soft tissues. As the fabrication
required many laboratory procedures and the patient cannot be
asked to sit in dental office during this considerable period of
fabrication.Therefore, they are constructed on the cast in the
absence of patient.The accuracy of fit and the functional
efficiency of the appliance depend upon how well the cast
replicates the natural oral tissues.The accuracy of the cast
depends on the accuracy of the impression in which it was cast.
9. Classification of ImpressionTrays
Based on
Availability
Stock
Custom
Need of
retention
Perforated
Non
perforated
Special tray
patient’s arch
shape and size
U1, U2, U3, U4
L1, L2, L3, L4
Edentulousim
Dentulous
Edentulous
Locking
Rim locked
Perforated
Non
perforated
Extension
Sectional
Full arch
27. Rim locked perforated
Rim locked sectional
perforated
Rim locked
non perforated
Dentulous
perforated
edentulous
perforated
Dentulous
perforated
sectional
edentulous
non perforated
Triple tray
Stock trays
for implant