The Assessment of Different Levels of Dental Participants on Designing a Removable Partial Denture

Abstract

systematic approach to removable partial denture design is difficult and requires
thought planning. The correct design must be based upon accepted mechanical and
biological principles. This is an experimental study for drawing partial denture design
for selected cases on papers by different levels of participants and compares these
designs with a standard design taken mainly from a text book "McCracken's
Removable partial prosthodontics". The results of this study shown that the highest
percentage of acceptable design for the total of three selected components ( major
connector, rest and retainers) was 67.91% made by Prosthodontists followed by 49.16
made by students, 29.58% made by general dental practitioners and finally the lowest
percentage was 23.33 that made by dental technicians .Also there are great variations
seen in different designs, some of them were far away from the principles of
removable partial denture design, that lead to put in mind for more focusing on
studying removable partial denture design in dental schools.