major connector

major connector
a rigid unit of a removable partial denture, serving as its chassis, which joins the parts of the prosthesis on one side of the dental arch to those on the other side, and to which all other components are attached. Called also saddle c. Cf. connector bar.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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