December 18th - Section 1: Selection and Insertion Direction

Design Step 1: Selection and Insertion Direction

6 Unit Bridge & 4 Single Copings with Vacuum Formed Template

Overview of entire case showing the vacuum formed template (suckdown) in purple. The suckdown was made from a pre-op study model that was included with the case. We can use the suckdown as a guide for cusp and pontic placement.
Each individual tooth is selected for both single copings and frameworks. By selecting pontics at site 7, 9, & 10 the program will drop in the correct shape pontic in spot selected minimizing the amount of design time needed to create a proper framework. Single copings are also selected individually. After all the teeth are selected properly the path of insertion is shown. In the case of a bridge, all eight green dots around each abutment must be visible to ensure a proper draw. The insertion direction can be manually altered if needed. The framework can also be rotated and viewed from many different angles. The red on the dies indicated an area in undercut. Any undercut coming over the margin line will need to be manually realigned to find a correct path of insertion. If undercut is present on the face of the die, as indicated in the picture above, the program will do a virtual blockout meaning waxing and rescanning is not needed.