Prosthetic rehabilitation following lateral resection of the mandible with a long cantilever implant-supported fixed prosthesis: A 3-year clinical report

Georgios Maroulakos; William W Nagy; Ayman Ahmed; Ioli I Artopoulou

doi:10.1016/j.prosdent.2017.01.019

Prosthetic rehabilitation following lateral resection of the mandible with a long cantilever implant-supported fixed prosthesis: A 3-year clinical report

J Prosthet Dent. 2017 Nov;118(5):678-685. doi: 10.1016/j.prosdent.2017.01.019. Epub 2017 Apr 29.

Authors

Georgios Maroulakos¹, William W Nagy², Ayman Ahmed³, Ioli I Artopoulou⁴

Affiliations

¹ Assistant Professor, Department of General Dental Sciences, Marquette University School of Dentistry, Milwaukee, Wis. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Professor and Director, Graduate Prosthodontics, Department of Restorative Sciences, Texas A&M University College of Dentistry, Dallas, Texas.
³ Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of General Dental Sciences, Marquette University School of Dentistry, Milwaukee, Wis.
⁴ Lecturer, Department of Prosthodontics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Dentistry, Athens, Greece.

PMID: 28461046
DOI: 10.1016/j.prosdent.2017.01.019

Abstract

This clinical report describes the prosthetic management of the surgical reconstruction of a patient after mandibular resection. Complete oral rehabilitation was achieved with a maxillary complete denture and a mandibular implant-supported fixed prosthesis with a custom titanium framework and a long unilateral cantilever.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

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Dental Impression Technique
Dental Prosthesis, Implant-Supported / methods*
Denture Design
Denture, Partial, Fixed*
Head and Neck Neoplasms / surgery
Humans
Male
Mandible / surgery*
Neck Dissection