How To Take A Moulding Impression (2024)
How to take a moulding impression.
Ok, So you've ordered your caps and your mould kit, kudos to you! you're officially halfway to getting CAPPD!
The first thing you should do before you take your impression though, is check through the package contents included in your kit and read this instructions sheet IN ITS ENTIRETY. Your kit should include: Coloured Putty, Light Putty, 2 chamber syringe, Tray.
Place all containers of impressions putty in the fridge for 15 minutes. That should give you more than enough time to read through this sheet, watch our tutorial video below, and get to grips with the process 😊
Read the following instructions a few times to familiarise yourself with the moulding process.
STEP 1: Prep
Prep your mouth by swishing some water around in order to dislodge and get rid of any food and hard to reach debris. If you're about to take an impression and haven't brushed your teeth yet.. please do.
Place the impression tray into your mouth to see if it's the correct fit and at a comfortable length. Make sure that the tray feels comfortable and that the length causes no pain past your back teeth.
STEP 2: Wash Hands
If you have gloves, put on the gloves! you can still take an impression moulding of your mouth with your hands, just make sure they're washed first!
STEP 3: The Coloured Putty
Empty the contents of ONE container/bag of coloured putty into your hand, and spread the putty out into a flat putty pancake!
STEP 3.5: The Light Putty
Empty the contents of ONE container/bag of light putty onto the flattened coloured putty in your hand, and squish those together too!
STEP 4: Mix 'n' Roll
Mix the two putty's together until you can no longer see any streaks of light putty and you have one single coloured putty again. Do this for a maximum of 30 seconds. Roll the now mixed putty into a sausage shape, ready to place in the tray.
STEP 5: Load The Tray & Bite
Load the sausage shape putty into the tray.
(Here comes the most important part! make sure you do this in front of a mirror for extra help.)
- Open your mouth, and pull out the lip covering the row of teeth you want to mould (Top lip for top row, bottom lip for bottom row).
- Align the tray over the teeth, and gently bite down into the putty. once you bite down, do not let go, stay biting!
- allow your lip to cover the tray and press your fingers over your lip to smoosh the putty along your gums. (This lets us capture your whole tooth shape).
- stay as still as possible for 5 minutes.
STEP 6: Review
Remove the mould by tilting the handle of the tray left to right, until the tray pops free, Do not separate the tray from the mould.
Carefully inspect your mould. You want the impression to show all the teeth you want capped in fine detail including the gumline shape.
Your impression should resemble the picture above.
STEP 7: Prep The Syringe
Hold syringe, and twist the nozzle anti-clock wise, from the bar, to the arrow. if you do this correctly, you'll hear a click, and the nozzle will be screwed on tightly to the chambers.
Step 8: Dispense Syringe (Do this in 60 seconds)
Dispense syringe into all the teeth impression, and place the tray back into your mouth. You should feel the impression ease back into position. it should feel snug, like a glove. Press everything into place again, bite down, and hold again for another 3 minutes.
Step 9: Remove Impression Again
Carefully inspect your mould. You want the impression to show all the teeth you want capped in fine detail including the gumline shape.
If you are happy with your impression, take some pics & vids, and send them to us at: Info@get-cappd.com
Make sure to include your name and order number in the email subject.
Include the corresponding tooth numbers for your caps within the email.
Once, we've verified your mould, you'll then be given the ayy-okay! we'll tell you how to send your mould back to us. Then you can sit back, relax, and get cappd!