DEVICE FOR FIXING CLASP DENTURE Russian patent published in 2003 - IPC

FIELD: medical engineering. SUBSTANCE: device has beam for fixing artificial teeth of clasp denture thereon. The clasp is connected to the beam so that it allows positioning in anchorage tooth groove. The anchorage member is cantilever built in into the clasp denture beam edge part to allow its positioning in longitudinal horizontal groove. The longitudinal horizontal groove is produced in the anchorage tooth on the chewing surface side of the anchorage tooth. Cantilever length in the longitudinal horizontal groove is selected to be greater than al 2/3 of mesio-distal chewing surface length of the anchorage tooth. EFFECT: high quality and reliability of anchoring; wide range of functional applications. 6 cl, 3 dwg