[Implant-supported prostheses: the value of surgeon-prosthetist collaboration]. / Epithèses implanto-portées: intérêt de la collaboration chirurgien-épithésiste.

For extra-oral implants, the difficulty is not simply the surgical technique, similar to that used for intra-oral implants. The real problem is to insert the implant at a specific position and with a proper alignment. The final cosmetic result is directly related to correct insertion of the implant and its anchors. We demonstrate the importance of a tight collaboration between the surgeon and the prosthesis, before, after and often during the intervention for obtaining a satisfactory result.

[Functional complementation of intra- and extra-oral implants. Apropos of a case of extensive loss of substance of the face]. / Complémentarité fonctionnelle des implants intra et extra oraux. A propos d'un cas de perte de substance étendue de la face.

The respective indications for oral or extra-oral implants lead to no confusion: stabilization of dental prostheses for the first, stabilization of maxilo-facial epitheses for the others. We demonstrate that the complementarity of the two types of implants can prove to be very useful in maintaining the maxillary dental prosthesis and the epithesis in a case of severe loss of facial substance affecting particularly the pre-maxilla. This complementary characteristic made it possible to recover fairly rapidly phonation and deglutition, and to remedy somewhat the esthetic damage. In other words to create the essential conditions for a return to everyday life.