A METHOD TO POSITION REPLACEMENT DIES ACCURATELY ON A FIXED PARTIAL DENTURE MASTER WORKING CAST

Impressions are often remade because of insufficient detail in one of many preparations. These impressions may be salvaged with a replacemen t die procedure. Some transfer or replacement die procedures fail to p osition the dies accurately; other procedures involve many steps in th e fabrication of copings. This article describes a method that quickly and accurately positions a replacement die in a fixed partial denture master working cast.