Prosthodontic Rehabilitation of Acquired Maxillofacial Defects
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In the last two decades treatment for head and neck cancers has evolved with multiple modality treatments, including radiation and chemotherapy in an effort to enhance local and regional disease control, reduce distant metastasis, preserve anatomic structures ,and improve overall survival and quality of life (QOL). Surgery is first choice for early cancers and for cancers that do not respond to radiation and chemotherapy in the form of salvage (Maureen, 2004).
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تاریخ انتشار 2012