Abstract
The aim of this study was to examine the final impression for the presence of border molding, which had been made by private dental practitioner in purpose of fabricating removable dental prosthesis in the Tripoli, Libya. The study had been conducted within 5 dental laps that work with 25 private dental clinics. The inclusion criteria: the impressions of the same day, impressions for removable prosthesis that is done with custom trays. Exclusion criteria: the old impressions, the impressions that has been done by prosthodontic specialist and impressions for fixed prosthesis. The evaluation of border molding has been done by three prosthodontic specialists based on the presence of border molding or no. One hundred and fifty final impressions for completely and partially edentulous patients were evaluated, 20% of the evaluated final impressions (n= 30) were showed that the border molding were present and 80% of evaluated final impressions (n= 120) were showed that the border molding were not present