Assessment of Conventionally and Digitally Fabricated Complete Dentures: A Comprehensive Review

CAD/CAM technology is gaining popularity and replacing archaic conventional procedures for fabricating dentures. CAD/CAM supports using a digital workflow reduce the number of visits, chair time, and laboratory time, making it attractive to patients. This study aimed to provide a comparative review of complete dentures manufactured using CAD/CAM and conventional methods. The PubMed/Medline, Science Direct, Cochrane, and Google Scholar databases were searched for studies published in English within the last 11 years (from 2011 to 2021). The keywords used were “computer-engineered complete dentures”, “CAD/CAM complete dentures”, “computer-aided engineering complete dentures”, and “digital complete dentures”. The search yielded 102 articles. Eighteen relevant articles were included in this review. Overall, computer-engineered complete dentures have several advantages over conventional dentures. Patients reported greater satisfaction with computer-engineered complete dentures (CECDs) due to better fit, reduced chair time, shorter appointments, and fewer post-insertion visits. CAD/CAM allows for precision and reproducibility with fewer procedures compared to conventional dentures. Polymethyl methacrylate is used as the denture base material for conventional dentures. For CECDs, the resin can be modified and cross-linked to improve its mechanical properties. The advantages of CECDs include a reduced number of appointments, saving chairside time, a digital workflow allowing easy reproducibility and greater patient satisfaction with a better fit

Trends of Innovative Development of Krasnoyarsk Region

One of the ways to develop the economy is innovation. The purpose of the article is to identify the main trends of innovative development and develop proposals for increasing its effectiveness at the mesolevel. The authors give a characteristic of the current state of innovation activity of the Russian Federation and one of its territory - Krasnoyarsk region. The authors compared the indicators that measure the levels of innovation development both according to international and domestic statistical data. Factors based on the identified trends were identified. Regional analytical researches allowed to justify an optimum composition of the sources and tools of financing innovation. The results of empirical data allowed the authors to reveal disproportions in the structure of the innovation infrastructure. The article gives recommendations on improving of institutional support with regard of the life cycle o