1. Two-piece oral facial prothesis retained with magnets for a complex maxillary facial defect: A clinical report
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Kanchan P. Dholam, Sandeep V Gurav, Arati Shinde, Gurkaran Preet Singh, and Neeraja Sathaye
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Dental Implants ,Palliative care ,Rehabilitation ,business.industry ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Dentistry ,030206 dentistry ,Prosthesis ,Tertiary care ,Prosthesis Implantation ,Prothesis ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Clinical report ,Face ,Facial defect ,Magnets ,Maxilla ,Humans ,Medicine ,Oral Surgery ,Head and neck ,business - Abstract
Total flap failure is a devastating complication in head and neck reconstruction. This clinical report describes the rehabilitation of an extensive maxillectomy defect communicating with the midface by using a 2-piece magnet-retained orofacial prosthesis fabricated in heat-processed acrylic resin. The innovative design and choice of material allowed early rehabilitation of a patient receiving palliative care at a resource-constrained tertiary care oncology center. Prosthetic treatment served to reduce the period of hospitalization and helped the patient to resocialize.
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- 2022
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