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Making preliminary dental impressions for microstomia patients is challenging due to limited mouth opening. This review examines tray designs and techniques for successful prosthetic rehabilitation in patients with restricted oral access.

Keywords:
Impressionslimited/constricted/restricted mouth opening/oral accessmicrostomiaprosthetic/prosthodontic rehabilitationsectional traystrismus

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Area of Science:

  • Dentistry
  • Prosthodontics

Background:

  • Microstomia, characterized by a decreased oral opening, significantly complicates prosthetic rehabilitation.
  • Challenges in prosthetic rehabilitation begin at the preliminary impression stage due to tongue rigidity and limited mouth opening.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review literature on preliminary impression techniques for microstomia patients.
  • To analyze various tray designs used for prosthetic rehabilitation in patients with restricted oral access.

Main Methods:

  • Literature search conducted across PubMed, Science Direct, and Google Scholar databases.
  • Keywords included microstomia, limited mouth opening, trismus, sectional trays, impressions, and prosthetic rehabilitation.
  • Review focused on English-language articles published between 1971 and 2015, including 17 relevant studies.

Main Results:

  • Preliminary impression making is a critical challenge in microstomia prosthetic rehabilitation.
  • Flexible and sectional trays, with extra-oral reassembly, are modifications used to overcome difficulties with standard impression trays.
  • Restricted mouth opening makes insertion and removal of impression trays cumbersome.

Conclusions:

  • Various tray designs and techniques are employed to manage the challenges of preliminary impression making in microstomia patients.
  • Successful prosthetic rehabilitation for microstomia patients relies on appropriate impression techniques and modified tray designs.
  • Further research into optimized impression techniques for microstomia is warranted.