MAGNETIC RETENTION FOR COMPLETE AND PARTIAL OVERDENTURES .1.
MAGNETIC RETENTION FOR COMPLETE AND PARTIAL OVERDENTURES .1.
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DOI:
10.1016/0022-3913(81)90032-9
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
影响因子:
4.6
通讯作者:
GILLINGS, BRD
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作者:
GILLINGS, BRD
Magnets have been used as aids to denture retention for many years with some success. The development of new cobalt and rare earth magnet alloys has greatly extended the potential application of magnetic retention in removable partial dentures, complete overdentures, fixed partial dentures, and sectional dentures.Effects of magnetic fields on tissues have been investigated extensively, with conflicting results, but reports describing dental applications for magnets claim no damaging tissue effects. The closed-field magnetic retention system described avoids any possibility of magnetic field effects on tissues by using paired magnets and a fixed and detachable keeper in a modified horseshoe arrangement. The detachable keeper is cemented or screwed to a decoronated, root-treated tooth. The denture-retention element, consisting of paired magnets and a fixed keeper, abuts the keeper in the tooth root and holds the denture in place by magnetic attraction. When in position, there is no external field surrounding the denture or tooth root. This arrangement also doubles the available retention.The shape, size, and configuration of the two magnets and fixed and removable keepers were chosen to provide maximum retention in a magnetic denture retention unit of a size convenient for most applications. The retention provided is approximately 300 gm per unit.The magnet alloy, Co5Sm, is very hard but brittle, and it can corrode in the mouth. To prevent this from occurring in service, end plates protect the exposed magnet faces. The plates, of the same stainless steel alloy as the keepers, prevent magnet corrosion and reduce wear at the denture-retention keeper-element interface in service.