2015, Number 2
Repercussion of rehabilitation with opturator prosthesis in patients treated on the Buccal and Maxillofacial Prosthetics Center
Language: Spanish
References: 13
Page: 72-79
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: prosthetic treatment by means of obturators in patients with maxillary defects, due to oncologic reason or congenital defects, should restore the most important functions like deglutition, phonation, mastication, as well as, an acceptable aesthetics, because personal appearance can be affected in a sense that, aesthetic rehabilitation is more necessary and urgent than functional rehabilitation in itself.Objective: to evaluate the repercussion of rehabilitation with opturator prosthesis in adult patients treated on the Buccal and Maxillofacial Prosthetics Center from 2004 to 2009.
Methods: a descriptive and transversal research with a quantitative approach was carried out in health services. The universe was constituted by 215 patients; 31 patients interviewed during 2011 were randomly taken as sample.
Results: female sex, people in the age range 35-59 years and large defects of oncologic cause predominated. Aesthetics was reestablished in the majority of patients, as much as, oncologic cause, as congenital one. The analyzed functional factors manifested adequately. Most of the patients felt satisfied and achieved their expectations in relation to the use of the obturator prosthesis and the service received.
Conclusion: repercussion of the rehabilitation with obturator prosthesis was evaluated of moderately positive in the studied patients.
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