How to Make a Splint

This chapter explores how to make a stabilisation splint. Adequate relief of undercuts and initial polishing are carried out in the laboratory to ensure easy seating of the splint. It will take approximately an hour to fit and balance the splint in the patient’s mouth. The splint will be delivered from the laboratory with adequate relief of undercuts to ensure easy seating. For an anterior repositioning splint (ARPS) to be regarded as appropriate treatment, it is important to determine whether the click is eliminated by protrusion of the mandible. The splint will be delivered from the laboratory with adequate relief of undercuts to ensure easy seating. The ARPS should be relined with autopolymerising acrylic intraorally at the chairside to provide good and positive retention. The operator can confirm the elimination of the click by using the stereo-stethoscope during opening and closing.