# Nesting Dentures: A Comprehensive Guide
## Introduction
[0] Hi. I'm gonna show you guys how I like to nest my dentures, denture bases, denture teeth, and monolithic dentures. Those three are gonna be discussed in this video segment. So let me go ahead and add a few files of dentures and see if we can get some cool ones loaded in here.
## Loading Dentures
[16] Let's see. Alright. I got three different dentures loaded in here, two maxillary and one mandibular base. We're gonna call it a denture base. Let's do it on the pro two Apex base and hit prepare prints, see what it gives us. Now, looking at the nesting guide, you'll see that I like to print intaglio down with the supports along the border and maybe a few strategically placed supports on the intaglio surface.
## Nesting Guide
[50] So let's see how Rayware does. It does a really good job at this. Usually, I find it's one of the better algorithms in all of the nesting softwares that I use. This is not necessarily the most accurate way to print a denture, but it means it leads to the easiest of finishing. Because if you notice that the tooth sockets are not contaminated with support bumps everywhere, which means our occlusion is gonna be really good because we don't have bumps to interfere with the seating of our teeth when we bond those in.
## Intaglio Surface
[77] And then we look at the intaglio, we look like we look we could see that almost all of our fitting surface is perfectly smooth with no supports except maybe a few little areas. And the supports are mostly along the border, which tend to get polished anyway. So let's go ahead and look at the angle first of all, and you notice that that angle is not perfectly vertical or perfectly straight up. It has a little bit of a tilt to it.
## Support Strategy
[114] Number one is long spans like here that don't have supports along the border. Although, technically, that angle does not need supports. So the algorithm is looking at that and saying that angle doesn't quite need supports. That's correct. However, it doesn't quite understand the mass of the object that's being printed and the peel forces and the weight. This not being supported will cause premature failure.
## Adjusting Supports
[140] And you could see these areas where Rayware does a decent job, but oftentimes also screws up. For example, we don't need these three sweet dots right there in the pallet, and we don't need these along this random border here. We need them all along this border. And you want to add a bead all the way around. No islands that lack support.
## Bed Adhesion
[170] And then all the way along now, when we get to these large areas of massive red, that's the software telling you that, hey. These areas are gonna be under stress. I will put maybe two here and just a few supports here. And, again, very minimum because those are gonna be you want them to peel off and be easy just to hit really quick and not to impact fit.
## Denture Teeth
[280] You could manually do that on almost any software. So now I'm gonna go ahead and go to the teeth. So I'm gonna go ahead and hit a new print job. We're gonna go find some denture teeth. Let's see if we have any. And we got some in here somewhere. Upper dent no. Denture teeth. I'm gonna call those denture teeth, believe it or not.
## Printing Denture Teeth
[316] Apex teeth. Let's see how it does. It's gonna flip the occlusal surface down towards the build plate, sockets up. I find that could be better for occlusal because here's the thing. You might think the opposite where you flip it to where the socket fitting surface is towards the build plate and all your supports are on this surface instead.
## Support Considerations
[338] But you have to understand that just if you accidentally left just a few little support bumps there and you go bond it onto your denture base, it's gonna camp the whole entire arch, which means you'll be hitting on one side and not the other, which is a far graver mistake than leaving a little bump on the occlusal surface somewhere that you need to polish. So, it's the lesser of two evils kinda thing, just to be mindful of that.
## Monolithic Dentures
[416] And then last thing we have to show you is the monolithic dentures. So I'm gonna go to new prints, and I'm gonna call this Triune denture. And I'm gonna go find a monolithic denture, open, and let's do the arch kit. Now so if you're doing a try in denture, you have try in material, but I usually do monolithic dentures as immediate dentures, so I'm gonna call it Onyx tough two.
## Immediate Dentures
[451] Those are like bomb proof immediate dentures that you could print pretty thin for people, and they are very durable. So let's go ahead and see what Raywear does. It should do very similar to what a denture base is where it only supports along the border. I think it I think it'll do a good job. I've been impressed with the algorithm on this in the past.
## Conclusion
[534] When you three d print them, they're phenomenal. Okay. So we covered monolithic dentures, denture bases, and denture teeth. And this is how I like to predictably support my prosthetics.
