The Evolution of the Geneva 2000 Denture System
In 1951, Doctor John P. Frush, a graduate of the University of Southern California School of Dentistry, traveled to Switzerland in search of denture artistry that he had only heard about. In Switzerland he attended a postgraduate course in complete prosthodontics where he learned about new procedures and products to restore the natural appearance of edentulous patients. Doctor Frush was at the time practicing dentistry in San Marino, California, and after this trip he would go on to become one of the most important innovators, entrepreneurs, and educators in the field of dentures that the dental community has ever known.

Doctor Frush returned to Switzerland a year later and landed the exclusive North American distribution rights from Candulor AG for the Swiss line of denture teeth and products that he was introduced to at the course he attended. Candulor, who had sponsored the post graduate course Doctor Frush attended, manufactured an anterior tooth line that was the most natural looking Frush had ever seen. Nothing like it existed in the US. Doctor Frush's deal with Candulor was to private label a line of porcelain denture teeth for distribution in North America under Doctor Frush's company name at the time Swissedent, located in Glendale, California. This new line of porcelain anterior teeth was called the Swissedent 900 series.

Doctor Frush was a true visionary, and his vision was not yet complete. His ideas expanded far beyond the sale of denture teeth, he wanted to change the denture industry, and to do this he needed to develop the tools to go along with the Swissedent 900 series teeth, and to educate the denture practitioner so they could also deliver a more natural looking denture.

Not only did Doctor Frush want to help practitioners deliver a more natural looking denture, but he also had the idea to develop a new form of denture occlusion designed with the edentulous patient in mind. He spent the next six years researching and developing what would become an entirely new concept in posterior tooth design. All of his practical research had shown him that the problems most denture wearers faced were with the stability of the lower denture, and this was due to the opposing forces created from cusp occlusion. Flat plane occlusion had already become a fixture in the industry, but it had not taken hold and was only used by a small niche due to it's problems with functional mastication, it's lack of bilateral balance and the creation of additional incline planes during the adjustment phase. Doctor Frush's ideas were to create a posterior tooth that would function efficiently during mastication, have bilateral balance through all fazes of function, and to eliminate all interceptions and inclined planes that would create instability. He turned again to Candulor who agreed to create this line of posteriors to his specifications. In 1958 after six years of research and development this new line of posteriors began to be manufactured and sold under the same name as Doctor Frush's anterior line, the Swissedent 900 series, it was called the Centrimatic Posterior.

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Based in Beverly Hills, California, Geneva Dental Inc. is at the forefront of continuing education and research in prosthetics. Founded in 1993 by Dr Roy A. Smudde, Geneva Dental Inc. distributes Geneva 2000 denture teeth and products and educates dental professionals in the Geneva 2000 Denture System.

Through AGD and CDA approved continuing education seminars at the Geneva Dental Institute in Sacramento, California, dental professionals can learn the latest advancement in complete denture fabrication and delivery.

"Our main purpose is to help the dental professional deliver the finest, most naturally esthetic and functional prosthetics possible", says Dr. Roy A. Smudde.

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