Taking an intraoral scan of a patients mouth with existing implants, creating a digital model of the patients mouth, digitally designing a denture bar based on the digital mouth model, fabricating a physical bar based on the digital bar model, delivering the physical bar into the patients mouth, capturing records of the patients mouth and installed physical bar, producing a physical denture and joining it to the physical bar, and delivering the physical denture and bar into the patients mouth, all in no more than three dental office visits. The step of digitally designing a denture bar typically includes selecting a cement gap for the abutments based on errors in the digital mouth model resulting from the intraoral scan, as well as designing lateral cement ports into the digital bar model. And the step of fabricating a physical bar typically includes using additive manufacturing such as 3D printing.
