Rehabilitating occlusion with a guiding flange prosthesis in a patient with mandibular resection: A case report

Abstract

Defects with the discontinuity of the mandible following a segmental mandibulectomy present a major challenge for rehabilitation. These challenges include correction of deranged mandibular movements, disfigurement, and esthetics, correction of functional difficulty seen during swallowing,speech and articulation, and also of surgical side deviation of the remainder mandibular structure. The following case report elaborates on the prosthodontic rehabilitation of a patient with the help of a device named «Guide Flange Prosthesis»which isindicated to correct such manifestations seen after hemimandibulectomy.