Completely Dentures with Mark Bishop – PDP029

With 'The Denture Guy' Mark Bishop who was also my first ever clinical tutor 11 years ago! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BkBEK01P0o Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! We discussed: 🎤 Occlusion with Dentures 🎤 Identifying red flags 🎤 At what point do you need to accept that the patient NEEDS to have implants to have success with dentures 🎤 What's more important? A technically excellent denture, or a patient with good adaptation 🎤 Why do patients who wear 'rubbish' dentures struggle with 'good' dentures 🎤 Which is the best impression material? 🎤 Which are the red flags patients for Complete Dentures? 🎤 How do you handle a patient who tells you how to do your job? 🎤 Communication Pearls via analogies 🎤 How can you achieve suction lower dentures? 🎤 Do all you dentures need to be in Class I ? 🎤 How can we improve our registration phase of complete dentures? 🎤 Why most Dentists trip up at the diagnosis stage of Complete Dentures, and how to overcome this 🎤 The importance of writing a letter to your complete denture patient The Atwoods classification and the Registration technique have been posted Protrusive Dental Community Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: Hello everyone and welcome to this episode on complete dentures with Dr. Mark Bishop... Jaz's Introduction: Dr. Mark Bishop was actually one of my first ever, he was my first ever clinical tutor at dental school. It was in second year, early in second year doing complete dentures. And what this guy doesn't know about complete dentures is frankly not worth knowing. We share so many great gems, as always, we talk about talking to your edentulous patients, or your dentate patients about expectations, how to manage occlusions in dentures, we talk about which is the best impression material for dentures, how can we get a lower suction denture? Is there a technique? Or is there something else that's there to it? Another couple of things, we talked about his red flag patients and how to identify them, as well as at what point can you actually say, actually, this patient in front of you will actually benefit massively from implants. And actually, the dentures just won't cut it. So that's something I often think about is actually with such a resorb ridge, are they going to get any success with this complete denture I'm about to make? Or do they actually need to have implants as in NEED to have implants. So we will touch on that as well. The Protrusive Dental Pearl I have for you quite fittingly is actually mentioned in the podcast episode, but it's something that Dr. Mark Bishop taught me about complete dentures. And it's basically when you have a patient who has complete dentures, and also due to the complete denture, and you're trying to adjust that bit on the or ease that denture so that it's not rubbing against the denture anymore, so it's a bit more comfortable for them. How do you actually know exactly where to adjust, so you're not adjusting inappropriate areas or adjusting too much. And you only want to adjust the fitting surface where the ulcer is. So what Mark taught me to use, and when I still use this days, the only reason I have Dycal in the practice, I use the base paste of the the white one of Dycal, and I've put put it, dry the ulcer, and I put it a little bit around the ulcer area, and then you press the denture on, you actually inserted and you press it on and you remove it, and you'll have the base paste of the Dycal on the fit surface of the denture. So now you know exactly where to adjust for that patient. So hope you enjoy the episode with Dr. Mark Bishop and I'll catch you in the outro. Main Interview: [Jaz]Right. So usually is Dr. Mark Bishop for you, our relationship I know you're happy for me to call you Mark. Mark thanks so much for coming on the podcast. [Mark]It's a pleasure.