1.Faculty of Dentistry, Hassan II University | Department of Removable Prosthodontics, | Casablanca | Morocco|
This article is made freely available as part of this journal's Open Access: ID| Kanza-Ref.14-ajira160920|
ABSTRACT Background: The great loss of substance in the maxillary is a delicate treatment. They are the consequence of an excisional surgery that affects bone and mucosal tissues and cause an osteo-mucosal, bucco-nasal or bucco-naso-sinusal continuity solution.They result in functional disorders (loss of sealing of the oral cavity, difficult phonation, disturbed chewing) and psychological disorders, sometimes severe,leaving patients with marked disfigurement, isolating them and stigmatizing them definitively. Objectives:The obturator prosthesis, regardless of the shape of the loss cavity, very often finds satisfactory retention and stabilization on the remaining teeth in order to provide an acceptable esthetic and functional result in a dentulous patient. Conclusions: Through this work, we propose to describe the different steps of prosthetic rehabilitation with a cast partial obturator prosthesis of a clinical case presented a hemimaxillectomy. Keywords: Prosthetic rehabilitation, hemimaxillectomy, partially edentulous, obturator prosthesis.
