Comparison of relative deflection in a fixed partial prosthesis with a soldered joint and an semi-fixed partial prosthesis with a precision attachment under simulated occlusal forces

Date
1973
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Burns, J. William
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Abstract
Precision and semi-precision attachments have been utilized in fixed partial prostheses for many years. A review of the dental literature reveals a lack of clinical and laboratory information and their use in specific situations therefore must have been empiricly established . The purpose of this research was to contribute to the establishment of either a sound rationale for the use of precision attachments or, conversely, to an indictment of them based on factual testing under simulated clinical conditions. [TRUNCATED]
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Thesis (M.Sc.D.)--Boston University School of Graduate Dentistry, 1973. Prosthodontics.
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