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This study compared rigid and flexible denture base material conditions in an idealized maxillomandibular finite element (FE) model at the final static bilateral clenching step. The model represented a fully edentulous geometry with coincident denture\u2013gingiva surfaces connected by a tie constraint. The model did not include an initial interface gap, interface separation or sliding, extraction sockets, tissue remodeling, or time-dependent misfit. Geometry, mesh, boundary conditions, and loading were identical between the two conditions, whereas both the Young\u2019s modulus and Poisson\u2019s ratio assigned to the denture base differed. The peak magnitude of the minimum principal stress in the gingiva and the model-predicted local peak von Mises stress in the denture base elements were evaluated. 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