Prosthetic rehabilitation of edentulous patients with cleft palate
Sykut, J.; Mieszkowski, P.Å‚; Bakalczuk, M.; Kleinrok, J.
Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Sklodowska. Sectio D Medicina 59(2): 209-212
2004
ISSN/ISBN: 0066-2240 PMID: 16146080 Document Number: 577289
In this work a description of prosthetic treatment of the edentulous patient with cleft palate was showed. Although positive results of surgical treatment diminish the number of these patients, more than once a dentist has to treat effectively patients in their fifties, sixties and seventies whose cleft palate was not treated with modern methods. Authors describe prosthetic solution which enables removing part of acryl from prosthesis and making air chambers. Diminishing of obturator prosthesis mass increases stabilization and retention and contributes to easier adaptation of prosthetic restoration.