nareg It's the "adjust as needed" step that's a bit of a bummer. ... ■ 3/30/2019 Usually one day, one week and three weeks. Most people come back 2-3 times. ■ Member Since: 04/20/07 Post: 6 of 35 drtommymurph 3/30/2019 It's really a personal preference. How many teeth would you be taking out from the patient, and is it for upper and lower immediate dentures or just a single-arch upper? The advantages of taking the posterior teeth out first are: 1. Fewer teeth to extract on the day of delivery. 2. Easier to take a bite record at the ideal vertical because most of the time, the occlusion is very off on patients with severely perio-involved teeth and potential extrusion of unopposed posterior teeth. 3. Leave one posterior tooth on the upper and lower that oppose to aid in vertical dimension recording. Member Since: 04/05/02 Post: 7 of 35 Bewildered Member Since: 04/02/03 Post: 8 of 35 I don't do custom trays and border mold for immediates. I used to do it, but more often than not you will be relining the immediates at the day of delivery with Coe-Soft or Coe-Comfort. So final impressions with border molding is just wasted energy and time. I personally take impressions with a stock tray and use PVS putty inserted first and do light border molding with the putty in place. Then I rock the tray anterior-posterior a few times to create some relief in FREE FACTS, circle 9 on card dentaltown.com \\ JUNE 2019 45http://www.continentaldental.com http://www.dentaltown.com