Suction Lower Complete Dentures – Improve your Removable Prosthodontics – PDP073

Lower Complete Dentures are the bane of Removable Prosthodontics. I know many Dentists who 'hate making lower full Dentures', likely because they are difficult to master. So difficult that I got Dr Rupert Monkhouse to give the Protruserati a podcast masterclass on how to improve in this frustrating area of Dentistry! https://youtu.be/cW41CHiLgGI Why won't you stop floating, damn you! Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Protrusive Dental Pearl: The power of silence! When you present your patients a solution or treatment plan, or tell them the fee, there may be a silence. Embrace it. Expect it. Don't panic. This is normal! DO NOT but in with a 'why don't you just think about it...' In this episode we discussed: How can you predict if a suction lower denture is anatomically possible? What materials Rupert likes to use What and how to adjust at the Try in stages of complete dentures How to get the wax try-in to stay in the mouth! Communication pearls surrounding lower complete Dentures If you enjoyed this topic, why not also check out the Master himself, Dr Finlay Sutton on Troubleshooting Chrome Dentures! For details on Rupert's Denture course, DM him on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/dentistrupert/ Click here for Full Episode Transcription:  Opening Snippet: I think pros actually is quite not easy but it's it has a few basic concepts if you master those and then sort of extrapolate them you can work out more difficult cases you know. Jaz’s introduction: Now we all know how annoying lower complete dentures can be. I could probably think about four dentists in the entire world who liked doing complete dentures. And the secret is because they’re good at it, right. And one of those dentists that I can think of is Rupert Monkhouse, who is doing some sensational things with his patients, with his photography. It’s just absolute art. And I’ve got him because he’s so good at removal prostho. So today we’re talking about exclusively the bane of our existence in removal prostho, which is a lower complete dentures.In this episode with Rupert, we’re going to ask about how to get more predictability, if that’s even possible with the lower complete dentures. What are the signs that actually you may be onto a winner and that you may be able to get a suction lower denture, that elusive suction from a lower denture, which you see flaunting on Instagram, I probably achieve this twice in my career so far. We’re able to get the lower denture suction, and both times you pull the camera out, you record it because it’s such a proud moment, right? To get suction on a lower complete denture.So I’m going to ask Rupert, is there a formula? Or is it all luck? As well as that we talked about all the different stages that Rupert utilizes to help him get a really stable, lower complete denture.Protrusive Dental PearlThe Protrusive Dental Pearl I have for you is a communication one. It’s something that I think as a profession on the whole, we’re not very good at and something that we were never taught. And now when I learned this technique, I guess it’s a technique in communication, it really made a huge difference. And I remember one time in Reading, we were doing an Invisalign open day, and I had two other dentists in the room while I was doing a consultation. So we were taking turns, one person was right in the notes, the other person was filling like the radiograph requests, that kind of stuff. So we’re working as a team for this Invisalign open day.And I went through my entire spiel, I showed the before and after’s I listened to the patient’s wants and needs and how we can help this patient to have a better smile. Now, when it came to the close, i.e., it’s going to cost this much and this much time, is this something you want to proceed with? Right, so that’s called a close when you close a treatment plan. When it came to a close, there was a silence, i.e.