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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 1996
Filed:
Jul. 28, 1993
Carl E Misch, Dearborn, MI (US);
Other;
Abstract
A denture tooth system (10) for a partially or completely edentulous patient, comprising a block of denture teeth (12), each tooth including enlarged undercut surfaces (14) disposed thereupon to permit greater mechanical retention to a rigid base to which the block (12) is secured. The denture tooth system (10) also includes a reduced gingival contour (16) to accommodate implanted attachments or bars and one or more teeth opposing the block. Each one or more posterior opposing teeth includes an enlarged central fossa (20). The block (12) is positioned and configured so that only a lingual cusp (22) of a given maxillary posterior tooth occludes with the central fossa (20) of one of the one or more opposing mandibular posterior teeth in centric occlusion.