WHY NOVUS Denture Liner?

Prior to the use of acrylic denture bases in the 1930s, complete dentures were made of vulcanized natural rubber and were somewhat resilient during chewing. Acrylics are much harder and inflexible, making dentures more difficult to wear, pinching the delicate tissues of the mouth between hard acrylic resin and the underlying residual bone. A number of resilient lining materials have been used against acrylic denture bases, but each has some drawbacks.

The Novus laboratory-cured complete denture liner is shock-absorbent during chewing, offering more patient comfort with fewer adjustments and is resistant to surface and subsurface fungal growth so that there is no fouling, odor, or stain. The material is moldable around overdenture abutments or implant heads and bars to provide denture retention, stability, and support, and allows denture movement toward the abutments and tissues.

Novus has low surface tension with excellent wetting and offers permanent softness, with a Shore A durometer between 35 and 45 and no plasticizers to leach out. It uses standard dental laboratory compression-molding processing steps, and the single-component paste has an unlimited shelf life, if refrigerated.