Inserting Retention Plastic Caps to Ball Implant Supported Overdenture: Easy Chair Side Technique

Traditionally, retention plastic caps are fitted to ball implant supported overdenture by the indirect method following the traditional prosthetic steps for implant over dentures. Drawbacks of this technique are more evident, such as improper load distribution between implant and mucoperiosteal denture foundation, pivoting effect at implant site resulting in frequent fracture of over denture at this site, loosening of the implant and time consuming and expensive as it needs extra laboratory steps and equipments. The aim of the present work was to present a simplified direct technique, which did not need any special equipments and hopping that it would avoid the disadvantages of the indirect one.