Despite astonishing advances in dental digital processes, virtual reality and artificial intelligence, the fabrication of dental prostheses continues to be driven essentially by indirect methods. Thus, a replica of the intraoral geography generated from traditional or digital impression-making remains necessary. Keeping up with innovations in methods, materials, equipment, clinical techniques and research reports permits the informed practitioner to optimize the impression process, thus improving prosthesis outcomes. This issue of Prosthodontics Newsletter discusses various factors that have an impact on the quality of intraoral contour capture in the fabrication of implant prostheses for partially edentulous patients.

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