A 37-year-old female patient reported to the hospital with a nasal defect due to carcinoma. She was previously restored with nasal prostheses, but was not satisfied with its cosmetic appeal. A computerized tomographic (CT) scan of the defect area was made and converted into 3dimensional (3D) digital data using dedicated medical imaging software. From the 3D image, measurements of the defect wer...

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...

Facial defects resulting from neoplasms, congenital malformations, or trauma can be restorated with facial prostheses using different materials and retention methods to achieve a lifelike look and function. For the successful result, a lot of factors as harmony, texture, color matching, and blending of tissue interface of prosthesis is important. This clinical report describes treatment using a...

OBJECTIVES Our study aimed to highlight the effectiveness of palatal lift prosthesis in patients with velopharyngeal insufficiency with previous operated cleft palate. METHODS This study was done undertaken January 2008 to December of 2009 in the Phoniatic unit of Alnoor Specialist Hospital, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Ten patients of ≥ 8 years to ≤ 10 years of age, who had previously undergone sur...

<p class="abstract">Reconstitution of the facial profile can be achieved in a depressed‘midface “, by supplementation nasal osteo-cartilagious skeleton utilizing autologous tissue or synthetic prosthesis, Bone from iliac crest and cartilages septum, cymba conchal rib are accepted grafts wide use. The costo-chondral junctional cartilage is ideal situations demanding excess graft, then harv...

Velopharyngeal dysfunction in cleft palate patients following the primary palate repair may result in nasal air emission, hypernasality, articulation disorder and poor intelligibility of speech. Among conservative treatment methods, speech aid prosthesis combined with speech therapy is widely used method. However because of its long time of treatment more than a year and low predictability, som...

Patients using obturator prostheses often present denture-induced stomatitis. In order to detect the presence of oral Candida albicans in patients with oronasal communications and to evaluate the effectiveness of a topical antifungal treatment, cytological smears obtained from the buccal and palatal mucosa of 10 adult patients, and from the nasal acrylic surface of their obturator prostheses we...

In maxillary defects, role of a prosthodontist is to rehabilitate the intra- and extra-oral structures and to endow with the normal function of mastication, speech, deglutition, and esthetics. Malignancies are common in the oral region and are treated usually through surgical intervention. Surgical intervention creates anatomical defects creating communication between oral and nasal cavity. Pat...

PURPOSE To assess the possible effects of retinal prosthesis implant location on the initiation and stability of pursuit eye movements. METHODS Six normally sighted subjects visually tracked a horizontally moving target in natural vision and in simulated prosthetic vision. Subjects were instructed to press a key when the target jumped. Prosthetic vision was simulated with a 10 x 10 array of 1...

Oral mucormycosis is a fungal infection observed mainly in elderly immunocompromised patients. In rare instances, the disease occurs in healthy individuals and those patients that are below preschool age. Although this condition mainly involves the maxilla, it may also manifest in any part of the oral cavity based on the source of infection. Mucormycosis of the maxilla spreads rapidly, leading ...