Hussaini S, Canela-Pichardo D
Department of Prosthodontics and Biomaterials, Dental School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, USA.
J Prosthet Dent. 1997 Jun;77(6):630-2. doi: 10.1016/s0022-3913(97)70107-0.
It is often desirable to insert a fixed provisional resin restoration at stage II surgery when the implants are uncovered. It satisfies the patient's esthetics, phonetics, and functional demands and helps create a good emergence profile for the healing gingival tissue. This article presents a procedure that enables the clinician to fabricate a full-arch maxillary provisional restoration for a fully edentulous patient, which can be delivered at second-stage surgery at the time of uncovering the implants.
