Patent ID: 6730246
Filing Date: 2004-05-04
Classification: A61C,Y10S

Abstract:
A method of supplying a replacement denture to a denture wearer upon the loss of an original denture, without requiring the assistance of the denture wearer to fit the replacement denture, the method comprising the steps of:forming a mold by depositing a material in surrounding relationship to the original denture before the material takes a substantially permanent set; allowing the material to take on a substantially permanent set; removing the original denture from the mold; storing the mold with the mold retaining its substantially permanent set configuration, wherein at least a portion of the mold is formed of a material having sufficiently permanent dimensional stability to retain its shape while the mold is stored so that a duplicate replacement denture can be fabricated upon loss of the original denture; and introducing initially fluent denture material into the mold and permitting the denture material to solidify within the mold to form a duplicate replacement denture when a replacement denture is subsequently needed.