ABSTRACT
Patients with head and neck cancer face high morbidity due to the disease and its treatment and are affected on a variety of personal and physical levels. Maxillofacial prosthetics offer support for other disciplines in a multidisciplinary setting; can help to prevent / minimize the sequelae from disease and treatment, and offers the patient help in the rehabilitation process. Maxillofacial prosthodontics focuses on optimizing the disrupted rudimentary function of individuals whose rehabilitation will be a lifelong proposition. Normal function may not be achieved but optimal function should always be achieved and the patients can lead a near to normal life.
Subject(s)
Head and Neck Neoplasms/therapy , Maxillofacial Prosthesis , Prosthodontics/methods , Dentures , Head and Neck Neoplasms/pathology , Humans , Quality of Life , StentsABSTRACT
Resolution time of amoebic liver abscess in 20 males aged 20-80 yrs. as studied by intra-cavitary micro-opaque barium sulphate ranged from 24-284 days (mean 74.8 S.D. +/- 8.4). Sic of these patients also underwent Indium11m scanning. The resolution time by scanning varied from 24-114 days (Mean 58.3 days S.D. +/- 4.6). No correlation was found between the size of abscess and resolution time. Resolution time studied by two methods was statistically significant. Instillation of micro-opaque barium sulphate is an inexpensive, reliable and a safe method which does not require sophisticated equipment.
