[Evaluation of rehabilitation needs by post-maxillectomy prosthesis in Senegal]

The surgical treatment of the jawbone tumors often ends up with an communication between the mouth and the sinus, embarrassy for the function and carrying severe esthetical damages. This work aims to evaluate the needs in filling mouth and fixe treating prosthesis in the management of malignant tumors at the Dantec University hospital. A case study of maxillary jawbone cancers observed in the ORL and the stomatology services allowed us to observe on a ten years period, 91 cases of maxillary cancers, from which (29 or 31.86%) have been surgically treated and only 3 patients (3.29%) got a full mouth and face filling prosthesis. Those patients averaged 50 years old, but we have registered some younger patients and women who, having missed oral rehabilitation, are really handicapped. In Senegal the care of people suffering from jawbone cancers must include a surgical section as well as a radiotherapeutic one, in order to involve all the cases, and a filling mouth-and-face rehabilitation prosthesis.