Maxillofacial Prosthetic Rehabilitation
This speciality deals with prosthetic rehabilitation of defects in the maxillofacial region.
Maxillofacial disfigurement can be congenital, developmental, traumatic, infections, tumours or cancers.
These defects can be intraoral, extra oral or a combination of both.
Such defects can compromise appearance, function and has psychological consequences. Prosthetic rehabilitation with meticulous planning can immensely improve the patients’ quality of life.
Intraoral defects are treated with,
- Obturators
- Zygomatic implants
Extra oral defects are rehabilitated with,
- Ocular prosthesis
- Orbital prosthesis
- Auricular prosthesis
- Nasal prosthesis
- Complex facial prosthesis
- Implant retained prosthesis