Improve Sales With Acetal Frames and Clasps

Now you can offer your dentists a unique way of improving esthetics with Acetal 

tooth colored frames and clasps. Acetal is excellent for tooth colored frames and 

clasps. Acetal is exceptionally durable and is easy to keep clean. Acetal tooth shade  

plastic is available in many different size cartridges to fit most thermo injection 

systems.  The following steps illustrate the fabrication of a tooth colored frame.

                                            Survey teeth in red pencil if possible.         

                                       Pencil in design of clasp after using undercut

                                       gauge to determine where the flexible third

                                       of the clasp goes.

                                     Block out undercuts and duplicate master model.       

                                   Copy design on duplicate model and waxup frame.

                                    Invest waxup 1/2 inch from entry hole and make       

                                    a single sprue.  We will cut out center after the         

                                    case is injected.    

                                   Invest in all stone.  Inject case, allow to bench cool 

                                   for seven minutes and deflask.

                                                 View of deflasked acetal frame.                   

                                       Cut out center of palate with acrylic trimmer.

                                          Cut out completed and finished on model.                           

                                                     Acetal, Acrylic Combination. 

                                               Metal, Acetal, Flexite Combination.

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