Objectives: This clinical report describes the long-term effect of tissue contracture on functionality obturator prosthesis. Material and Methods: Eleven patients who underwent maxillectomy confined only to hard palate rehabilitated sequentially with immediate surgical followed by interim closed bulb hollow were included in study. These up every 3 months for years prosthesis was relined at each...

and closed hollow obturators, inflatable obturators and 2-piece 3 hollow obturator prosthesis. This clinical series describes the fabrication of hollow definite obturators utilizing mechanical The term maxillectomy is used by maxillofacial surgeons to means and anatomical structures of patients left at the surgical describe partial or total removal of the maxillae in patients site for its reten...

The aim of the study was to evaluate the alterations in speech intelligibility in a cleft palate patient, before and after extending and modifying the palatal contour of the existing prosthesis using a correctable wax recording. An eight-year-old girl studying in second grade with a velopharyngeal defect using an obturator reported to the outpatient clinic complaining of lack in clarity of spee...

OBJECTIVES The primary goal of prosthetic obturation is closure of the maxillectomy defect and separation of the oral cavity from the sinonasal cavities by use of different bulb designs. The aim of this study was to evaluate the articulation performance of obturator patients with three different buccal extension designs. METHODS Five patients with palatal defects of comparable sizes at ages r...