Fabrication of a Kugel Bar Implant Overdenture
1st Office Appointment
- Take preliminary maxillary and mandibular impressions for fabricaiton of custom tray
Please allow 2 working days for the following laboratory procedures
Laboratory Step #1
- Pour maxillary and mandibular preliminary cast
- Fabricate custom tray
2nd Office Appointment
- Take facebow (please provide articluator if other than Denar or Stratos)

- Make centric bite record using occlusal rim
- Take impression utilizing GC resin to join impression copings together
Please allow 5 working days for the following laboratory procedures
Laboratory Step #2
- Pour master model utilizing lab analogs in die stone
- Mount cast on adjustable articulator (Denar or Stratos)
- Set up full denture
- Make verification jig using GC resin screwed down to the master cast
3rd Office Appointment
- Screw down verification jig in the mouth and verify fit with an x-ray to confirm the accuracy of the impression and teh master cast; if there is any discrepancy, section and lute together with GC resin; the lab will reset analogs on the master cast to this new relationship using the same jig
- Wax try in of full denture
Please allow 10 working days for the following laboratory procedures
Laboratory Step #3
- Mount casts on adjustable articulator
- Set up of mandibular full denture for wax try in
- Fabrication of Kugel implant Bar
4th Office Appointment
- Wax try in of mandibular full denture with Kugel Bar in place
Please allow 5 working days for the following laboratory procedure (excluding resets or adjustments)
Laboratory Step #4
- Duplicate master model with kugel Bar in place
- Transfer processed full denture to master cast with Bar in place
- Reprocess full denture with Kugel liner over the Kugel Bar
5th Office Appointment
- Deliver of final denture with Kugel Bar

