In this episode of Protrusive Dental Podcast, Dr. Mark Bishop discusses all things dentures.

Aims and objectives:

• To troubleshoot complete dentures and improve success
• Identify the 'red flag' complete denture patient
• Revisit the ideal occlusion for complete dentures
• Explore techniques to improve complete denture records
• Occlusion with dentures
• At what point do you need to accept that the patient needs implants, to have success with dentures
• What’s more important, a technically excellent denture, or a patient with good adaptation
• Why patients who wear ‘rubbish’ dentures struggle with ‘good’ dentures
• Which is the best impression material?
• How to handle a patient who tells you how to do your job
• How can you achieve suction lower dentures
• Do all your dentures need to be in Class I
• How to improve the registration phase of complete dentures
• Why most dentists trip up at the diagnosis stage of complete dentures, and how to overcome this
• The importance of writing a letter to your complete denture patient