Prosthodontic Management of Patients with Flabby Ridges Using Different Impression Techniques: A Case Series

Abstract

Fabrication of complete dentures in clinically compromised cases such as “flabby ridge” is a challenging task for the dentist.A flabby ridge is a superficial area of mobile soft tissue which develops when hyperplastic soft tissue replaces the alveolarbone. During impression making using the conventional impression technique force is exerted resulting in distortion ofthe mobile tissue and thus leading to loss of retention, stability, and support of the denture. To overcome these difficultiesmany modified impression techniques have been proposed that help to record the fibrous tissues in undistorted form. Thisarticle presents three case reports for prosthodontic management of patients with flabby ridges using different impressiontechniques.