Dental Waxes

We will talk about dental waxes; u can use dental wax in the lab or in the clinic for different purposes:

|In clinics |In laboratories |
|Bite registration : to know the occlusal relationship between upper|Boxing techniques : when we want to make a base |
|and lower teeth | |
|we can use a wax sheet to set the teeth in complete denture we use |Baseplate for complete and partial dentures |
|wax sheet we make adaptation of it on the cast Alterations and | |
|adaptation for impression trays if the tray is too short ( not | |
|reach all the teeth we can add wax to register all the area ) | |
|so u alter the size and use the wax for this purpose | |
|Direct waxing for cast restorations |Hold components before articulation |
| ____________ |Indirect pattern for casting |

Composition

■ Natural waxes produced from:

■ Plants

■ Minerals: paraffin wax

■ Animals: beeswax

■ Synthetic waxes

■ Additional components: gums, oils, resins, fats just to change the properties .

properties

1) melting range :Because waxes composed of different component they don’t have a melting temperature , they have a melting