Case for diagnosis. Palate perforation due to cocaine use

Abstract

Abstract: We report a 42-year-old cocaine addicted female patient referred for evaluation of hard palate ulceration resulting in oro-sinus communication with difficulties in swallowing and phonation, an rhino-sinusitis. Acrylic and removable silicone prosthesis was prescribed to relieve severe functional disorders. It is essential that the patient permanently abandons cocaine use to perform surgical reconstruction.

Keywords

• Cleft palate
• Cocaine
• Oral fistula
• Palatal obturators
• Palate
• Palate, hard