Preprosthetic Surgery

Abstract

Preprosthetic surgery encompasses the surgical procedures with aim of redefining the soft or hard tissues or both by the accomplishment of relieving the biological interferences so that the individual can accept a comfortable prosthesis. In the early times it was regularly carried out in the specialty of oral and maxillofacial surgery. But the advent of implantology has relegated this area to a less performed corner but still some procedures remains valid and indispensable. The prosthetic management in certain cases pose great challenge in finding stability and retention, which in turn can successively catapulted by the manuvers of preprosthetic category. The human mandible has no one design for life. Rather it adapts and remodels through the seven stages of life, from the slim arbiter of things to come in the infant, through a powerful dentate machine and even weapon in the full flesh of maturity, to the pencil-thin, porcelain like problem that we struggle to repair in the adversity of old age. Poswillo.