Abstract: A method of establishing a new dental occlusal scheme for a person who has vertical gaps between upper and lower teeth including the steps of making casts of the person's upper and lower teeth, building up overlay material over the cast of the lower teeth, positioning the cast of the upper teeth in articulated position relative to the cast of the lower teeth to produce a desired occlusal relationship between the cast of the upper teeth and the overlay material, curing the overlay material to produce a cured overlay, sculpting the cured overlay to produce an overlay unit consisting of a plurality of cap members resembling upper portions of crowns of natural teeth connected by struts with the cap members having the desired occlusal scheme and morphology, bonding the overlay unit to the lower teeth, severing the struts after the overlay unit has been bonded to the lower teeth to provide complete divisions between adjacent cap members, and shaping the individual cap members to merge into the natural teeth on whic