MINOR CONNECTORS
Channel: DENTISTRY ’N MORE
Date: 2020-10-10

An RPD framework includes five components: The major connector, minor connectors, rests, direct retainers, and indirect retainers (in distal extension RPDs). A major connector combines all other components of an RPD so that the partial denture acts as one unit. Thus, functional loads can be distributed to all abutment teeth, and cross-arch stabilization can be provided. In addition, in distal extension RPDs, forces can be distributed between both the abutment teeth and the mucosa by unification of the direct retainers with the denture base.

Minor connectors provide rigidity and unification by joining other components of a framework to a major connector. Thus, the transmission of forces among the major connector, abutment teeth, and oral tissues can be achieved. And minor connectors act as a bracing component and maintain the path of insertion when they are located on guiding planes.

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