Open AccessMagnet and Semi Precision Attachment in an Implant Retained Partial Denture for the Rehabilitation of an Irradiated Marginal Mandibulectomy Patient: A Case Report
Author(s) -
Blessy Susan Bangera,
Satyabodh S Guttal,
Sudhindra Kulkarni,
Adarsh Kudva,
Srinath Thakur
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2015/13749.6542
Subject(s) - medicine , rehabilitation , tongue , implant , dentistry , mandible (arthropod mouthpart) , oral cavity , orthodontics , surgery , botany , pathology , biology , genus , physical therapy
Surgical treatment of malignancies in the oral cavity (mandible, tongue, floor of the mouth, alveolus, buccal sulcus) often results in an unfavourable anatomic condition for prosthodontic rehabilitation. Hence, maxillofacial prosthetic rehabilitation becomes a mightier task when resection is accompanied by radiation therapy. In selected cases, implant therapy comes to rescue. The following report throws light on the case of prosthetic rehabilitation of a patient who underwent right marginal mandibulectomy and right partial glossectomy, with the aid of a single implant, semi precision attachment and magnet supported partial denture.