Stippling of the areas representing the attached gingiva may be accomplished in a variety of ways but the blow-wax method is preferred herein⁴. A strip of masking tape is placed over the artificial teeth and marginal gingiva. Another strip of masking tape is placed over the alveolar mucosa, leaving the band of attached gingiva exposed. Molten wax is then blown from the surface of a #7 A wax spatula onto the wax-up. The result is natural looking, positive stippling which seems to collect less debris and calculus, and is easier to clean than the indentations made by negative stippling techniques. If the positive stippling is to be preserved in the finished denture, care must be taken in waxing the denture to the proper thickness and in finishing and polishing the denture after processing. (Figure 5):

Figure 5: Wax pattern for a facial prosthesis readily demonstrates the soft tissue surface texture or orange-peel appearance produced with the blow-wax technique.