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ArticleFrontiers in dental medicine2025

Overdenture pickup without retaining material; a novel dental technique.

Noha Waleed Barakat, Mahmoud Mokhtar El Far, Ahmed Mustafa Hashim Kotb

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Article in Frontiers in dental medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Noha Waleed BarakatDepartment of Prosthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt.
Mahmoud Mokhtar El FarDepartment of Prosthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt.
Ahmed Mustafa Hashim KotbDepartment of Prosthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article describes a novel technique for overdenture metal housing pickup for a digitally fabricated overdenture using an extraoral scanner and ExoCAD software. This technique could help the clinician save time and reduce the hassle of extra visits and additional laboratory steps.

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digital dentureExoCADmandibular overdentureoverdenturepickup

Identifiers

PMID40567534
PMCPMC12187722

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