Maxillary defects are created by surgical treatment of benign or malignant neoplasms, congenital malformation and by trauma. The size and location of the defects in ̄uence the degree of impairment and dif®culty in prosthetic rehabilitation. Lack of support, retention, and stability are common prosthodontic treatment problems for patients who have had a maxillectomy. A prosthesis used to close a ...

The treatment of hemimaxillectomy patients include the construction of an interim obturator in the wound healing period. With the aim of simplifying this process, we describe construction of an obturator in a short single visit, in the dental chair with no need for impressions or for laboratory services. The obturator comprises: (i) the surgical obturator and (ii) a hollow light-cured resin bul...

This case report describes the rehabilitation of a patient who had been treated with a hemimaxillectomy, reconstruction with a latissimus dorsi vascularized free flap, and radiotherapy for carcinoma of the sinus some years previously. Limited jaw opening, difficult access through the flap to the bony site, and the very small amount of bone available in which to anchor the implant inspired the d...

One of the most rapidly growing areas of dentistry from the stand point of both interest and need is maxillofacial prosthetics. The research of cancer has made understanding and treatment of this dreadful disease a possibility. Still the rehabilitation of these patients is a daunting job. The factors which determine the prognosis of prosthetic reconstruction are size of the defect, ability of t...

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 ...

Mucormycosis has emerged as an epidemic within a pandemic of COVID 19 in India. It especially during second wave 19. Four major factors which are critical for the treatment mucormycosis rapidity diagnosis, reversal underlying predisposing (if possible), appropriate surgical debridement infected tissue and antifungal therapy. Patient with maxillary resection present challenging situation prostho...