Modern trends in extra oral maxillofacial prosthesis - a review

ABSTRACT

Maxillofacial prosthesis are usually fabricated on the basis of conventional impressions and techniques. The extent to which the prosthesis reproduced normal facial morphology depends on the clinical judgement and skill of the individual fabricating the Prosthesis. Recently, as a result of advances in digitized imaging technology like Laser Surface digitizer with CAD/CAM, CT, MRI Sequence, and Rapid prototyping techniques have been successfully introduced for the automated fabrication of auricular prosthesis. To obtain design and fabrication of prosthesis replicas and molding technique for casting prosthetic parts with the new manufacturing approach shows reduced patient discomfort, minimal dependence on the artistic skills of the prosthestist short turn around times for the prosthesis can be expected