THEORETIC RESILIENT PROSTHESIS                          REAL RESILIENT PROSTHESIS

 

In a resilient solution the movement of the prosthesis causes a functional rotation around a consequent axis which will never correspond to the axis of the couple of assembled attachments.

 

A big alignment discrepancy will cause a progressive structural tension which will negatively affect not only the attachments but also the old skeleton and on the pillar elements.

 

We can make a good example to explain better this phenomenon comparing the resilient prosthesis, with attachments not aligned, with the door of an old “cellar” with a deformed jamb and with bent hinges.

 

Both closing and opening, the door will have an irregular movement, it will be noisy and will force the hinges due to the tensions caused by a wrong alignment.

 

So to “limit the damages” that this solicitation could cause, it is necessary, if you use resilient attachments, that they have also the horizontal movement (limited) that means that their patrices should have a freedom level able to allow a free direction)for example ART Micro Hinge with freedom level 2).

 

In a rigid solution, where the only significant movement between prosthesis and pillar is the elastic-structural one (which is usually marginal but not forgettable), the right procedure of attachments assembly will function perfectly, without troubles, if the simple suggestions written below will be observed.

 

The word that better represents the right attachments assembly is: “Aesthetic-functional assembly”.

 

This technical definition expresses the criterion of choice and of application of a device that:

- must first of all have features and dimensions suitable for the prosthetic case and;

- must be positioned in such a way to allow a dimensionally and morphologically right construction of the covering tooth.

The respect of aesthetics, necessary for a right construction of the prosthesis, usually leads to the concurrent respect of functionality.

 

 

With functional condition we mean a structural situation where all connexion devices are totally and efficiently involved, that is to say the condition where they can play functions of embrace, bearing and retention of the prosthesis.

 

We list now some fundamental “guide-lines” for a right attachment assembly:

 

The guide connexions of traditional prefabricated attachments can be distinguished in three main geometrical shapes: trapezoidal (dove tail), cylindrical and rectangular.

- Guide with trapezoidal connexion

- Guide with cylindrical connexion (cylindrical or spherical patrix)

- Guide with rectangular connexion

- Spherical connexion: the spherical connexion is not considered a guide because its vertical insertion path (the ray of the ball) is mathematically shorter than its horizontal dimension (the diameter of the ball).

 

A statement is necessary: the connexion systems are defined guide systems when their vertical insertion path is longer than their maximum horizontal dimension.

 

With burnout prefabricated attachments the geometry of the guide is often a combination of the three main shapes modified because casting techniques or automatic milling techniques cannot copy the edges.