Principles of Attachment Selection for Implant Supported Overdentures
Principles of Attachment Selection for Implant Supported Overdentures | Hamid Shafie, DDS* and George Obeid, DDS** |
![]() ![]() ![]() |
|
**due to the size of some of the pdf files some might be hard to load, download the pdf instead. |
![]() but they can easily be replaced at chair side. We strongly recommended using a metal housing with Hader/EDS plastic clips. Bar attachments can be classified by their cross-sectional shape as round (Figs. 10A, 10B), egg-shaped (Fig. 10C), and parallel-sided U-shaped (Fig. 10D). Bars that are resilient, providing vertical resiliency, hinge resiliency or both, are termed bar joints. (Fig. 10C) Bars that are non-resilient are termed bar units. (Fig. 10D) Factors that influence the flexibility of the bar are listed in Table 5. |
![]() |
|||
SROMS |
|
17 |
|
Volume 19.6 |