Oral rehabilitation of patients with craniofacial disorders is a great challenge and needs a multidisciplinary approach. This is due to the diverse etiology of the disease and severity of changes in tissues and organs. Congenital absence of tooth germs manifested in the form of oligodontia or anodontia, the presence of persistent deciduous teeth in ectodermal dysplasia (ED), cleft lip and hard ...

Objective: To analyze national and international studies on oral cancer. Method: This is an integrative literature review. Were selected 28 articles that met research inclusion criteria. Data were processed in IRAMUTEC software and analyzed by descending hierarchical classification based on the dendrogram. Results: There were presented in 05 classes, namely: 1-The prevention and treatment of or...

The article presents an analytical review of current data on the effectiveness use obturator prostheses in patients with oral cancer after treatment. Literature search was performed Ovid MEDLINE, Embase, Web Science, PubMed, Scopus, Yandex period 2012 – 2022. terms were head and neck cancer, cavity orthopedic dental rehabilitation, prosthetics, prosthesis. success rehabilitation prosthesis depe...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to assess the feasibility of the early implementation of a swallowing rehabilitation program in tracheostomized patients under mechanical ventilation with dysphagia. METHODS This prospective study was conducted in the intensive care units of a university hospital. We included hemodynamically stable patients under mechanical ventilation for at least 4...

BACKGROUND Advances made in prevention have helped postpone complete edentulism in older patients. However, in the elderly, the physiological state reduces patients' ability to adapt to oral rehabilitation and degrades the patient's oral condition. Consequently, elderly edentulous subjects avoid many types of foods, which can lead to substantial nutritional consequences. Complete dentures retai...

AIM This paper describes a clinical case of a male with hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia submitted to rehabilitation and occlusal dental interventions with follow-up from 3 to 14 years of age. BACKGROUND Due to the severe effects on function and esthetics, the clinical manifestations of ectodermal dysplasia exert a negative impact on quality of life. However, oral rehabilitation in childhood...

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the facial profile esthetics of rehabilitated children with complete bilateral cleft lip and palate (BCLP), comparing the judgment of professionals related and not related to cleft rehabilitation and laypersons. Methods: Thirty children in the mixed dentition (24 male; 6 female) with a mean age of 7.8 years were evaluated using facial profile p...

This comparative study included 146 patients that are under risk of developing MRONJ and needed oral rehabilitation with implant-supported prosthesis. All the patients had metabolic profile assessments and were divided into two groups: G1-normal osteometabolic (92 patients), G2- altered (54 patients). All patients in G1, regardless gender type prosthetic rehabilitation, showed a regular osseoin...

Patient. A 68-year-old man was operated on for squamous cell carcinoma (T3N3M0) of the maxilla creating the hemimaxillary surgical defect on right side. The remaining arch was completely edentulous. There was remarkable limitation in the oral opening with reduced perimeter of the oral cavity due to radiation and surgical scar contracture. This article describes prosthetic rehabilitation by modi...

INTRODUCTION Vestibular rehabilitation of patients suffering from balance disorders is a long and difficult process, the exact cause of therapeutic success or failure remains often unknown. In our practice, the complex vestibular rehabilitation consists of medical treatment and rehabilitation training program. Balance training comprises mostly statokinetic exercises, however, the training of th...