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Revista Portuguesa de Estomatologia,
                                                       Medicina Dentária e Cirurgia Maxilofacial


                                                          rev port estomatol med dent cir maxilofac. 2024;65(2):85-93





           Clinical Case Report

           3D-printed CAD/CAM complete dentures – Case report



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           Isabel Gomes *  , João Paulo Martins   , Cátia Branco   , Luís Miguel Lopes             1,3
           1  Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Medicina Dentária, Unidade de Investigação e Ciências Orais e Biomédicas (UICOB), Lisbon, Portugal
           2  Faculdade de Medicina Dentária da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
           3  Laboratório de Instrumentação, Engenharia Biomédica e Física da Radiação (LIBPhys), Lisboa, Portugal



           a r t i c l e   i n f o          a b s t r a c t
           Article history:                 Dentures are used to restore missing teeth and are traditionally fabricated using the lost-
           Received 29 August 2023          wax technique. The flasking process is arduous, time-consuming, error-prone, and requires
           Accepted 21 May 2024             a skilled technician. The development of 3D printing technology has made rapid prototyping
           Available online 25 June 2024    of dentures more feasible. This case report describes the functional rehabilitation of a com-
                                            pletely edentulous patient with complete dentures by a manufacturer-independent work-
           Keywords:                        flow with conventional clinical steps combined with computer-aided design, computer-aid-
           3D printing                      ed manufacturing (CAD/CAM), and 3D printing technology. The result was 3D-printed
           CAD/CAM                          complete dentures that were fully adapted, economical, and well-accepted by the patient.
           Complete denture                 (Rev Port Estomatol Med Dent Cir Maxilofac. 2024;65(2):85-93)
           Edentulous                                       © 2024 Sociedade Portuguesa de Estomatologia e Medicina Dentária.
                                                  Published by SPEMD. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license
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             *  Corresponding author.
             E-mail address: isabel.gomes@fmd.ulisboa.pt (Isabel Gomes).
           http://doi.org/10.24873/j.rpemd.2024.06.1219
           1646-2890/© 2024 Sociedade Portuguesa de Estomatologia e Medicina Dentária. Published by SPEMD.
           This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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