CUSTOMIZED THERMOPLAST RETENTIVE AID FOR PARTIAL AURICULAR PROSTHESIS-A CASE REPORT

Auricular prostheses were traditionally retained using chemical adhesives ,mechanical retentive aids or natural undercuts at retention sites.These methods have the limitation of frequent loss retention, skin reactions to adhesives, unnatural movements prosthesis. Osseo integrated implants which has superior advantages over others disadvantages for patients with financial constraints and/or who are apprehensive surgery.Also, extraoral require adequate thickness bone, may be deficient in certain cases. In this case report,we described about a new technique fabricating and incoporating customized thermoplastic auricular aid thus utilizing both anatomic mechanical retention.