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7 Minor Connectors

Minor connectors connect components like denture teeth to the major connector. They provide unification, rigidity, stress distribution and maintain the path of insertion. The main types are embrasure minor connectors between teeth, gridwork minor connectors in edentulous spaces usually connecting to direct retainers, and proximal minor connectors shifted lingually. Relief wax is placed under gridwork connectors starting 1.5-2 mm from abutment teeth.

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7 Minor Connectors

Minor connectors connect components like denture teeth to the major connector. They provide unification, rigidity, stress distribution and maintain the path of insertion. The main types are embrasure minor connectors between teeth, gridwork minor connectors in edentulous spaces usually connecting to direct retainers, and proximal minor connectors shifted lingually. Relief wax is placed under gridwork connectors starting 1.5-2 mm from abutment teeth.

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Minor Connectors

• Connect components to the major connector


 1. Direct retainer
 2. Indirect retainer
 3. Denture base
Functions of Minor Connectors

• Unification and rigidity


• Stress distribution
• Bracing through contact with guiding
planes
• Maintain a path of insertion
Types of Minor Connectors

• 1-Embrasure Minor Connectors


– Between two adjacent teeth
Types of Minor Connectors

• Embrasure Minor Connectors


2-Gridwork Minor Connectors

• Connect denture base and teeth to major


connector
Gridwork Minor Connectors

• Adjacent edentulous spaces


• Usually connect major connector to direct
retainers
• Open lattice work or mesh types
Gridwork Minor Connectors type

• Open lattice work, mesh types Bead


,wire, loops or nail posts minor
connectors
MESH LATTIIC

BEAD NAIL POST


Gridwork Relief

• Relief wax is placed in


edentulous areas
• 1 mm of relief
Relief Under the Gridwork

• Should begin 1.5 - 2 mm from the


abutment tooth
3-Proximal minor connector

• Shifted slightly lingually


– Increases rigidity
– Enhances reciprocation
– Improves esthetics
• Often a triangular space below the
guiding plane (undercut)
4-surface minor connector

-are located on the lingual surface of incisors and canines


-they connect lingual rests to the major connector
Position of Major Connector Junction

• Should be ≈ 2 mm medial to lingual surface of


denture teeth

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