Custom Made Protective Appliance for Oral Submucous Fibrosis

Abstract

Oral submucous fibrosis is a chronic, debilitating disease characterized by gradually increasing fibrosis of oral cavity and pharynx, mainly the buccal mucosa, resulting in trismus. Various flaps have been used to reconstruct the surgical defects following excision of fibrous bands. It is inevitable to prevent these flaps from trauma by occlusion. The main objective of the authors is to introduce a technical innovation used to protect the flaps in the post-operative period. Here, we propose an easy and economical method to protect the flaps.