Disinfect the operatory.

You should have showed the set-up to your instructor before you came to the clinic.

Take the blood pressure.

Check the vertical, centric, esthetics. Have the instructor check these steps. Make any corrections. Have the patient sign the white card that they have seen and approve the set-up.

Do the posterior palatal seal. Get the gum SHADE.

Have the progress notes and white card signed by the instructor.

Has the patient paid for more than half the cost of the dentures?

Finish the wax-up and have the instructor sign your prescription for the processing of the denture.

You can preserve the facebow record after the wax-up is completed.

©1999 by Julius Rosen, D.D.S.