Passivity of fit is imperative when obtaining accurate impressions. This technique utilizes the Wide Body Posterior Triple Tray (Premier Dental Products), Virtual VPS Bite Registration material, and VPS Automatic Dispenser (Ivoclar Vivadent). By using this armamentarium to obtain a closed-mouth impression, clinicians can quickly and easily obtain an accurate impression for indirect restorations in an efficient manner. This article describes a technique and combination of materials for producing an excellent record of the master impression, counter impression, and bite registration simultaneously. 2 This technique enables clinicians to take an impression of the prepared tooth, the opposing teeth, and the habitual centric occlusion all at once, thereby reducing chair time, expense, effort, and error because it requires fewer steps. Given the current philosophy toward more conservative treatment approaches, the quadrant closed-mouth impression technique-or dual-arch impression technique-is ideally suited for today’s indirect restorative procedures and has been reported to ensure more accurate intercuspal relationships than mounted casts from full-arch impressions. Today, dentists prescribe and place a significant number of indirect restorations and, as a result, they are required to take more impressions, most of which are for one or two units. Clearly, to be successful in today’s high-pressure, high patient-demand environment, clinicians must provide aesthetic restorative dental care that is more efficient than ever before.

Additionally, quickly achieving an accurate impression the first time, every time, enhances practice profitability by saving time and preventing the need for retakes or the insertion of less-than-satisfactory restorations.

When treating patients who require indirect restorations (eg, full- and partial-coverage crowns, inlays, and onlays), accurate impressions are the cornerstone of restorative success and the key to communication between the dentist and the laboratory.

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