Prosthetic rehabilitation of a completely edentulous patient with palatal insufficiency

Abstract

This article presents a case report of a completely edentulous patient with palatal insufficiency successfully rehabilitated with closed hollow bulb obturator prosthesis and also describes a simple technique for fabricating a two-piece hollow bulb obturator that allows for control of the bulb′s wall thickness and weight of the prosthesis.

Keywords

• Cleft palate
• hollow bulb obturator
• palatal insufficiency
• prosthetic rehabilitation