Dental implant-retained auricular prosthesis

Abstract

Absence or loss of facial structures causes functional deficits and enormous psychological distress, so rehabilitation is necessary. However, facial prostheses have some difficulties due to mobile underlying tissues and retention. We used dental implant instead of conventional maxillofacial implant and safe on four prosthetic systems which is used in over dentures for retention of auricular prosthesis.

Keywords

• Dental implant
• maxillofacial prosthesis
• silicone