Interdisciplinary Cooperation in Reconstructing Extensive Defects

Abstract

Successful functional and esthetic rehabilitation and quality of life of maxillo-facial patients is based on effective interdisciplinary cooperation especially of surgeons, dentists and technicians. Mutilated defects occur during the first phase of the oncological surgery and immediately after injuries. Subsequent plastic surgery is the initial step of functional reconstruction and creates the base for future construction of the implant-born epithesis and post-operative dentures. Several case reports demonstrate complex rehabilitation of typical maxillofacial defects solved within the interdisciplinary cooperation.

Keywords

• maxillofacial defects
• plastic surgery
• dental implantology
• epitheses
• quality of life
• interdisciplinary cooperation