Discussion: Prosthodontic rehabilitation of patients with maxillectomy is a challenge as it involves restoring speech, deglutition, mastication and respiration. This clinical report describes a comprehensive prosthodontic management of a young girl treated for a subtotal maxillectomy due to intraosseous mucoepidermoid carcinoma. The prosthodontic management that was carried out right from the s...

Construction of a maxillectomy obturator for any surgical defect requires optimum retention, stability and obturation of defect. In the following case a closed hollow bulb obturator was constructed while utilizing surveying and neutral zone impression technique. After insertion, soft liner was applied to record functional impression of the surgical defect. The obturator was resurfaced with heat...

Patients may face functional, aesthetic, and social distress because of the palatal defects. Prosthetic rehabilitation of maxillectomy or developmental defect can be challenging for prosthodontists. Prognosis of the prosthetic appliances can be affected not only by patients' own ability to adapt to the prosthesis but also by the factors like the remaining teeth, bony structure, and existing muc...

INTRODUCTION Digital technologies related to imaging and manufacturing provide the clinician with a wide variety of treatment options. Stereolithography (SLA) offers a simple and predictable way for an accurate reconstruction of congenital or acquired defects. CLINICAL CASE A 65-years old cancer patient with non- keratinized squamous cell carcinoma of left maxillary sinus came for a prostheti...

Prosthodontic rehabilitation following aggressive infections and malignancies is challenging. Surgical intervention may lead to anatomical defects resulting in oro-antral communication that causes difficulty mastication, deglutition, impaired speech facial disfigurement. The role of a Prosthodontist maxillary restore these with the fabrication obturators. However, extent obturator into large ne...

INTRODUCTION Constuction of the obturator prostheses and providing the patient's comfort with them are very difficult. Primary and the most important stage for these prostheses is to perform a proper impression. CASE PRESENTATION A 55-year-old edentulous Turkish female patient with a congenitally maxillary defect was rehabilitated with an open hollow obturator prosthesis. After the preliminar...

Acquired surgical defects of the hard or soft palates interfere with the speech pattern and the mechanism of deglutition, and of equal importance, produce a feeling of social insecurity with unfavorable psychological as well as economic consequences. Patients with palatal defects labor under handicaps that cannot be fully appreciated by those with normal palates. The dentist should use his spec...