Orofacial Rehabilitation

The patient who has incurred extensive defects of the oral and facial structures will be benefited most by the services of a rehabilitation team of which each of the participants has a comprehensive knowledge of the others' problems, both surgical and prosthetic. The surgeon needs to become thoroughly acquainted with the possibilities of modern prostheses, as well as with the time [SEE FIG. 10, 11, 12 and 13 IN SOURCE PDF] for their insertion in order to harmonize the surgical technique with the prosthetic procedure. The prosthodontist needs to become throughly acquanted with the problems of successful surgery. An objective understanding and acceptance of each other's methods will achive a cooperative relationship which is desirable if the most satisfactory rehabilitation of these orofacial cripples is to become a reality.