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Two‐Piece Extraoral Prosthetic Rehabilitation to a Perineural Invasion Lip Cancer
Author(s) -
Şahan Makbule Heval,
Eskiizmir Görkem,
Ateş Pınar
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of prosthodontics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.902
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1532-849X
pISSN - 1059-941X
DOI - 10.1111/jopr.12493
Subject(s) - swallowing , mastication , medicine , prosthesis , rehabilitation , dentistry , basal cell , orthodontics , surgery , physical therapy , pathology
Lip cancers can severely affect a person in terms of function, esthetics, and psychological trauma. After surgical resection, lip defects require special rehabilitation. This clinical report describes a neck prosthesis of a male patient diagnosed with lower lip squamous cell carcinoma with perineural involvement. The neck prosthesis was connected to the mandibular complete denture with cobalt samarium magnets. Both prostheses improved the patient's mastication, deglutition, and esthetics.