Removable Partial Dentures. A Practitioners' Manual

This clinical guide, now in an extensively revised second edition, describes the latest developments in planning, materials, and techniques for successful fabrication of removable partial dentures (RPDs). The fabrication of conventional and digital RPDs are demonstrated in a simple and easy-to-understand format, with the aid of numerous color figures and video clips with scientific support on each page. Care has been taken to provide reliable guidance on all aspects of clinical practice relating to RPDs. Readers will find information on decision-making regarding treatment options, clasp-retained RPDs and esthetic solutions, attachments and double crown systems in RPDs, implant-assisted RPDs, maintenance and post-insertion problems for all types of RPDs, the role of RPDs in the management of temporomandibular disorders and the treatment of maxillofacial defects, the re-establishment of occlusal vertical dimension and maximal intercuspation, the rules for disinfection in prosthodontic practice.

Olcay Şakar DDS, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Prosthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, İstanbul University, İstanbul, Türkiye. Dr. Şakar graduated from İstanbul University Faculty of Dentistry in 1987 and after completing her PhD thesis “The factors affecting successful esthetics in complete and removable partial dentures”, became Associate Professor in 2000 and  Professor in 2007 in the Prosthodontics Department of the same faculty.  Dr. Şakar has published more than 50 articles in national and international peer-reviewed journals and has given numerous presentations at meetings both within Türkiye and overseas.