Montero PJM, Almagro UZE, Justo DM

Language: Spanish
References: 11
Page: 592-598
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: the Broadrick flag constitutes a device that allows restoring the plane of occlusion and creating the Spee's curve when the restorations for the posterior sectors is design.
Objective: show the process of restoration of de Spee´s curve using the Broadrick flag and to identify the benefits of this device in the implantological rehabilitation.
Case report: female patient of 56 years old that came to the Implantology´s office of the Dentistry's Faculty of Havana to be rehabilitated by prosthesis. After transfer the craneomandibular relationship, through the face-bow, to the Dentatus's semiadjustable articulator, one proceeded to oilcloth the definitive restorations having under consideration the determining ones belonging to the occlusal morphology and using the Broadrick flag.
Conclusions: the adequate use of the Broadrick flag allowed both, dentist and technician, created the Spee's Curve easily, having as a result ending an implantological rehabilitation, aesthetically accepted, that restored the patient's occlusal- joint equilibrium.

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