Single piece flexible obturator for the management of complex maxillary defects: A clinical report. 2020

Tejomaya Shastry, and Mohit Dhiman, and Sudhir Bhandari, and Gunjan Pruthi
Senior Resident, Unit of Prosthodontics, Oral Health Sciences Centre, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India.

Cysts, a common occurrence in the jaws, are managed with different conservative and radical approaches. Although surgical excision is usually the treatment of choice, it can result in an open defect that compromises the oronasal seal and affects the patient's quality of life by interfering with daily intake of nutrition. These defects vary in anatomic geometry and extent depending upon etiology and require a prosthodontic intervention in the intermediate phase until a definitive closure is executed. An unconventional obturator design with a helical spring incorporated into a flexible obturator is described to manage 2 patients with challenging anterior maxillary cysts.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008437 Maxilla One of a pair of irregularly shaped bones that form the upper jaw. A maxillary bone provides tooth sockets for the superior teeth, forms part of the ORBIT, and contains the MAXILLARY SINUS. Maxillae,Maxillary Bone,Bone, Maxillary,Bones, Maxillary,Maxillary Bones,Maxillas
D010158 Palatal Obturators Appliances that close a cleft or fissure of the palate. Cleft Palate Prosthesis,Nasoalveolar Molding Devices,Obturators, Palatal,Cleft Palate Prostheses,Device, Nasoalveolar Molding,Devices, Nasoalveolar Molding,Molding Device, Nasoalveolar,Molding Devices, Nasoalveolar,Nasoalveolar Molding Device,Obturator, Palatal,Palatal Obturator,Palate Prostheses, Cleft,Palate Prosthesis, Cleft,Prostheses, Cleft Palate,Prosthesis, Cleft Palate
D011788 Quality of Life A generic concept reflecting concern with the modification and enhancement of life attributes, e.g., physical, political, moral, social environment as well as health and disease. HRQOL,Health-Related Quality Of Life,Life Quality,Health Related Quality Of Life
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man

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