Making impressions is a critical early step in fabricating any dental prosthesis. The use of an intraoral scanner or conventional impression trays with splinted implant impression components to capture edentulous ridge contours and 3-dimensional implant positions and relationships is a complex, technique-sensitive clinical process. Research to date has failed to provide a consensus on the best methods. To assist clinicians in this challenging area, this issue of Prosthodontics Newsletter reviews recent professional literature on edentulous implant impression techniques and their accuracy.

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