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Integration of intraoral scanning and conventional processing to fabricate a definitive obturator: A dental technique
Hatem Alqarni1, Mathew T Kattadiyil2, Ruth Aponte-Wesson3
1Teaching Assistant, Prosthetic Dental Science Department, College of Dentistry, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Fellow, Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Section of Oral Oncology and Maxillofacial Prosthodontics, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.
Abstract:
Clinical challenges occur when treating patients with maxillofacial defects with digital technology. This report describes a technique that combines intraoral scanning to fabricate a milled record base along with the conventional processing to fabricate a definitive maxillary obturator prosthesis.
