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Implant Position Planning
ARTICULATOR SET-UP
Diagnostic casts for implant planning are made of super-hard dental stone,
just as in perioprosthetics, and mounted on an adjustable articulator with
an arbitrary face bow and centrics registration.
OCCLUSAL HEIGHT
If an occlusal height requires correction, this must be done with a guard or
long-term provisional before the implant-supported prosthetic restoration
begins.
ARCH RELATIONS (TRANSVERSAL)
The arch relations control the load direction and therefore the axial align-
ment of the implants. This is particularly important with cross-bite situa-
tions.
ARCH RELATIONS (SAGITTAL)
Crowns cannot be placed precisely over the implants in the presence of An-
gle Class II dentition because the soft tissues must be supported and the
space for the tongue must not be reduced. A removable denture is indicated
in this situation.
INITIAL PROSTHETIC SITUATION
The initial prosthetic situation describes the dental status, arch relations,
the anatomical status of the hard tissue, the intraoral and extraoral soft tis-
sue, the presence of functional, phonetic and esthetic restrictions on the
patient and the resulting influence on the patient’s quality of life.