Congenital or acquired, intraoral extraoral, traumas carcinomas are known to produce psychological imbalances in patients with the least expectations of returning their normal lives. Oral fifth most common all. The major goals rehabilitation such restore function, speech, swallowing, and aesthetics. However, there many limitations achieving these goals, an obturator prosthesis remains as first ...

The Aramany classification system of postsurgical maxillectomy defects is a useful tool for teaching and developing obturator framework designs and enhancing communication among prosthodontists. This article describes a series of Aramany-obturator design templates and discusses the relevant considerations for each. In all situations, a quadrilateral or tripodal design is favored over a linear d...

We report a case of a 17-month-old child affected by Sturge-Weber syndrome who had unusually rapid overgrowth of the left frontal, temporal, orbital, and maxillary regions. CT angiography illustrated osteohypertrophy with periostitis and associated soft tissue hypertrophy directly corresponding to the distribution of the cutaneous port-wine stain. Extended maxillectomy was performed because of ...

A patient with a successfully treated primary osteosarcoma of the tibia experienced an isolated maxillary metastasis, which is an extremely rare entity. Once the tumor was confirmed histopathologically, a total maxillectomy and adjuvant chemoradiation therapy were carried out. There has been no local recurrence or distant metastasis for 1 year. A multimodality therapeutic approach is essential ...

Maxillary defects resulting from resection involving the maxilla pose unique surgical and prosthetic rehabilitation challenges. Such defects occur as a consequence of congenital malformations, trauma or surgical resection of tumors. Surgical reconstruction of large maxillary defect is seldom tried. The obturator is a prosthesis used to close maxillary defects to restore masticatory and phonetic...

Chondroblastomas are rare entities accounting for approximately 1% of all primary bone tumors. We describe a case of a 7-year-old girl with a giant chondroblastoma of the maxilla, treated with bilateral class III maxillectomy and reconstruction with a double-barreled and double skin paddle fibular free flap. We show evidence of an excellent aesthetic outcome at 6 months' follow up with no evide...