ABSTRACT
La fisura labiopalatina consiste en la falta de fusión de los procesos palatinos y labial durante el desarrollo embrionario. Estos pacientes presentan una comunicación buconasal, alteraciones dentarias de forma, tamaño y posición, y un deficiente desarrollo del maxilar. Su tratamiento requiere un trabajo de equipo multidisciplinar, ya que afecta funciones básicas que comprometen su calidad de vida, como comer, hablar o relacionarse socialmente. Aunque la cirugía primaria soluciona mayormente esta anomalía, algunas veces persiste la comunicación entre las cavidades bucal y nasal, lo que se conoce como comunicación o fístula buconasal. Esto supone una mayor dificultad en el cierre quirúrgico, siendo a veces imposible de cerrar a través de la cirugía. En tales casos, la obturación de dicha fístula a través de una prótesis otorga una solución de bajo costo para el paciente y con resultados óptimos a corto y mediano plazo. El objetivo de este artículo es exponer casos de rehabilitación protésica en pacientes con fisura labiopalatina y fístula buconasal posterior al tratamiento quirúrgico.
Cleft lip and palate is the lack of fusion of the palatal and labial processes during embryonic development. Patients are characterised by the presence of buconasal communication, dental alterations, and poor development of the maxilla. Treatment requires multidisciplinary team work, due to the impact on basic functions such as eating, talking or interacting with other people, and even compromising their quality of life. Although primary surgery mostly solves this anomaly, sometimes communication between the oral and nasal cavity persists (called communication or buconasal fistula). This leads to greater difficulty to surgically close it, being impossible in some cases. In these cases, the closure using a prosthesis provides a low-cost solution for the patient, with an optimal result in the short and medium term. The aim of this article is to present cases of prosthetic rehabilitation in patients with cleft lip and buconasal fistula after surgical treatment.
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Humans , Female , Child , Adult , Cleft Lip/rehabilitation , Cleft Palate/rehabilitation , Dental Prosthesis , Oral Fistula/rehabilitation , Postoperative CareABSTRACT
The prosthetic treatments play a role in the rehabilitation of patients with congenital and acquired cleft palate. To prepare the surgical field and/or correct inevitable sequelae of the surgery, the rehabilitation with obturator prosthesis is an auxiliary or complementary treatment to surgical treatments. In cases where the surgical treatment is contraindicated, the prosthetic rehabilitation becomes a definitive treatment. The denture is planned and fabricated according to each patient. Therefore, the aim of this study was to discuss the prosthetic rehabilitation performed in patients with oronasal communication.