PENUTUPAN FISTULA CELAH LANGITAN MEMAKAI PLAT PROTESA AKRILIK LEPASAN PADA ANAK (Laporan Kasus)

Abstract

Fistula cleft palate is an abnormal opening from the mouth to the nose (via the palate), where a part of the cleft palate did not heal properly after a surgical treatment. Fistula cleft palate in children is categorized as a psychic problem because of the abnormal appearance and problems to the mouth organ for eating, speech, and hearing. Providing optimal rehabilitation of closing the fistula cleft palate is not easy to achieve and requires a team-work of different experienced specialists. A child of three years with a fistula cleft palate came to the Dental Faculty's clnic with a poor gingival state, a high rate of caries on the deciduous teeth (destroyed and missing). The dental rehabilitation treatment would be to cover the fistula. The closing of the fistula with a removable acrylic protheses as obturator is to establish a normal arch-form, improved and redirected growth of the maxilla, so that the growth and development will be normally active with the feeding and speech development improved. The purpose of this case presentation was to overcome the difficulties in treating the teeth of children with fistula cleft palate.