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Soft palate defects created during oral cancer surgery may prevent complete palatal closure and trigger palatopharyngeal insufficiency. One current treatment employs a rigid obturator prosthesis; an extension of acrylic resin at the level of the hard palate ensures surface contact with the remaining musculature. Unfortunately, airflow escape often causes hypernasality, compromises speech intelligibility, and creates swallowing problems (including leakage of food and fluid into the nasal airway). We plan to test a new removable denture featuring a thick dental dam that serves as a membrane obturator. The principal objective of the clinical trial is a comparison of speech handicap levels after 1 month in patients with acquired velar insufficiencies who wear either the new device or a conventional, rigid obturator. The secondary objectives are between-device comparisons of the swallowing handicaps and the health-related qualities of life

Positions mandibulaires : quelle posture scientifique ?

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Anthropologie et le sens de l’engagement humain

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Anthropologie et le sens de l’engagement humain

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Des prothèses aux bioprothèses

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Transhumanisme & Posthumanisme : quels seront les patients de demain ?

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Positions mandibulaires : quelle posture scientifique ?

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Le patient d’hier, d’aujourd’hui et de demain dans l’enjeu des reconstructions prothétiques maxillo-faciales.

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Le patient d’hier, d’aujourd’hui et de demain dans l’enjeu des reconstructions prothétiques maxillo-faciales.

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Maxillofacial Prosthetics and surface electromyography: Case reports

International audienceMaxillofacial prosthetics is art and science of artificial rehabilitation of facial bones when structure loss is congenital or developmental. In the latter case, oro-facial cancerology can lead to maxillectomies, mandibulectomies and glossectomies often related to ionizing radiations. These treatments can lead to various functional complications including mandibular kinematic interferences.The maxillofacial specialist faces management of mandibular latero-deviation, limitation of oral aperture but above all copes with prosthodontics guidelines caused by mandibular bone loss. The author want to enhance the use of surface electromyography and electronic recording of mandibular movements in oro-facial re-education and prosthetic treatment of patients with maxillo-mandibular deficiencies