Maxillofacial Prosthesis in Mahim

Maxillofacial Prosthetics is a dental specialty in prosthodontics. A Maxillofacial Prosthodontist can perform treatments for restoring and replacing head and neck tissues, bones, or any area damaged by birth defects, traumas, or accidents. Your teeth, jaws, and palate are the common sites that can be affected. Maxillofacial Prosthetics helps restore a better quality of life by reconstructing damaged portions. In the information provided below, we will briefly discuss the benefits and procedure of Maxillofacial Prosthetics- brought to you by Dentarica Orocare Mahim Mumbai.

Benefits of Maxillofacial Prosthetics

Recovery of Oral Functions

By restoring missing teeth or reconstructing damaged areas, patients can regain their oral functions and chew, swallow, and speak normally.

Birth Defects Recovery

Patients born with maxillofacial disorders, including ear, teeth, gums, or palate defects, can benefit from maxillofacial prostheses to restore their oral health.

Integrated Approach

Maxillofacial Prosthetics is an integrated approach that combines various branches like oral surgeons, oncologists, neurosurgeons, prosthodontists, and other dental specialties. The idea is to improve the overall dental status of the person. 

Improved Aesthetics

You can enjoy the benefit of improved aesthetics even when you have suffered from severe trauma or have a birth defect. Reconstructive surgery helps in enhancing your looks by restoring the defect.  

Improved Quality of Life

Maxillofacial Prosthodontics can improve the patient’s quality of life significantly. A maxillofacial prosthodontist can make your oral functions work properly and give a natural look to the patient’s areas of concern.

Psychosocial Benefits

Proper reconstruction and improved aesthetics will give you enhanced confidence and improve your mouth’s function.

So a well-constructed prosthesis is not just for aesthetics; it has psychological benefits also. 

Procedure of Maxillofacial Prosthetics

The main objective of Maxillofacial procedures is to restore a patient’s oral health when trauma or disease has affected the mouth, neck, jaws, or face.

Procedures vary in complexity, time, and cost depending on the kind of reconstructive treatment you need. We have a team of experts proficient in handling all kinds of complex cases. 

At Dentarica Orocare Mahim Mumbai, our team of experts will comprehensively examine your case. We will examine your teeth, jawbones, and other surrounding areas to understand the root cause of problem. 

After completing the comprehensive exam, our experts can set a treatment plan that satisfies your needs and makes you feel good during your restoration procedure.

Maxillofacial treatments that involve reconstructing bone or tissue areas will take longer than simple processes by general dentists.

The restoration process depends on the patient’s problem. Whether you need dental implants, reconstruct a cleft palate, or restore facial defects, the procedure will have a different set of timeline. Our experts will comprehensively examine your case to customize the treatment plan. 

Our experts will reconstruct missing or defective areas of the maxilla, mandible, and face. This reconstruction can require implants, bone grafting, or prostheses of different types.

Benefits of maxillofacial prosthesis 

• be comfortably and safely placed (whether they are fixed or removable prostheses)
• be long lasting
• be resistant and match the surrounding appearance of the patient’s mouth.