Maxillofacial rehabilitation of a case of Left total maxillectomy with series of obturators. - a case report.

Dr Sankalp Dattaram Bhandarkar; Dr Saloni Mistry; Dr Sonia Ahuja Talreja; Dr Akshi Gvalani; Dr Sayalee Deshmukh

Volume : VII, Issue : VII, July - 2018

Maxillofacial rehabilitation of a case of Left total maxillectomy with series of obturators. - a case report.

Dr Sankalp Dattaram Bhandarkar, Dr Saloni Mistry, Dr Sonia Ahuja Talreja, Dr Akshi Gvalani, Dr Sayalee Deshmukh

Abstract :

God has blessed all of us with beauty but for some, actions or fate can change it like having bad habits, post–surgical after being operated for cancer, some accidental injuries or developmental defects. The defects caused by surgical interventions in the head andneck region differ according to size, shape, and location. The rehabilitation of such defects is very vital in the patient‘s life which involves his speech, mastication, deglutition, and aesthetics which can be treated successfully by prosthetic rehabilitation.Thus, there was the rise of the anch of maxillofacial prosthodontics which pursues to re–create the missing or the lost anatomical structures.

The treatment is schematically divided into three phases, according to the surgery and the wound healing process. This article describes the different procedures involved in prep� the many types of obturators which the patient should be treated with, beginning with the surgical phase to the definitive obturator.