A chairside technique to add customized anterior acrylic resin teeth to a surgical obturator

Publication date: Available online 6 September 2017
Source:The Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry
Author(s): Kamarul Hisham Kamarudin, Mariko Hattori, Yuka I. Sumita, Hisashi Taniguchi
A surgical obturator may need to be modified during the healing process after tissue resection. Apart from relining the fitting surfaces to accommodate the healing wound and changes in the surrounding tissues, other modifications such as adding teeth are sometimes required to improve esthetics and speech. This article describes a chairside technique to add customized acrylic resin teeth to an existing surgical obturator.



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