Abstract
Patients: A 65-year-old edentulous female patient visited with chief complaints of taste disturbance and pain while wearing dentures. Further investigation indicated masticatory dysfunction as a result of ill-fitting maxillary and mandibular dentures, and taste disorder was suspected to be a result of oral candidosis. After reformation of the intraoral area, new dentures were fabricated by applying the Flange technique.
Discussion: We determined that functional dentures could be produced through medication and the plaque controlled by means of instruction to the patient, who had Sjögren syndrome. Dentures were fabricated by using the Flange technique for the skin function limitation, which is a scleroderma patient’s major symptom. Thus recovery of the masticatory function became possible.
Conclusion: Maxillary and mandibular dentures were successfully produced for a systemic illness patient with functional satisfaction by applying the Flange technique.
