Telescope denture with acrylic teeth

This is the denture system that primary and secondary telescope crowns fix in its place. It is a removable partial denture, preferably made of metal baseplate with acrylic teeth on it. The metal baseplate is necessary as the separation of the telescope crowns requires quite a force that a plastic baseplate couldn’t resist and would break. The baseplate can be made of a golden net as well, but this is not advisable to use for the upper denture as gravity pulls it downwards (it’s heavy because of the gold). If the telescope crowns are made of gold then it’s advisable to have the baseplate made of it as well, because this way the secondary telescopic crown doesn’t need to welded (only soldered) to the golden net.

Primary telescope crown (+price of the gold 35 Euro/gram)

The telescope crowns are hidden fastenings as well. Telescopic denture can be made if there are only 1-3 remaining teeth on the jawbone and they are so stable that it’s unnecessary to remove them but they are not enough to have a hidden anchorage partial denture installed on them – in this case the telescopic system can function well. The easiest way to imagine the telescopic system is to compare them with Matryoshka dolls with only two dolls – a smaller and a larger. The smaller one supposed to be the primary telescopic crown which is glued onto the stump and the secondary telescopic crown clicks onto the primary one (with high friction), representing the higher doll. These telescopic crowns can be made of gold, which increases the costs and the technician has to use a special way and material to solder the gold to the dental metal which also generates an extra cost. Our experience shows that the telescope crowns made of dental metal are functioning just as well as the ones made of gold but for the former one soldering is not needed.

Secondary telescope crown (+price of the gold 35 Euro/gram)

The telescope crowns are also hidden fastenings. Telescopic denture can be made if there are only 1-3 remaining teeth on the jawbone and they are so stable that it’s unnecessary to remove them but they are not enough to have a hidden anchorage partial denture installed on them – in this case the telescopic system can function well. The easiest way to imagine the telescopic system is to compare them with Matryoshka dolls with only two dolls – a smaller and a larger. The secondary crown supposed to be the larger doll which is fixed in the denture. This clicks onto the primary crown thus ensuring (by the friction) that the denture is in place and not letting the denture to move during chewing. The secondary telescope crown can be made of gold as well, but the golden crown needs to be soldered to the metal baseplate by using a special material in a special way.