Preprosthetic Surgery

Preprosthetic surgery encompasses the surgical procedures with aim of redefining the soft or hard tissues or both by the accomplishment of relieving the biological interferences so that the individual can accept a comfortable prosthesis. In the early times it was regularly carried out in the specialty of oral and maxillofacial surgery. But the advent of implantology has relegated this area to a less performed corner but still some procedures remains valid and indispensable. The prosthetic management in certain cases pose great challenge in finding stability and retention, which in turn can successively catapulted by the manuvers of preprosthetic category.