Abstract
It is well-known that the prosthetic treatment for edentulous mandibulectomy patients is one of the most consistently frustrating area in the maxillofacial rehabilitation.
Practically speaking, if hemimandibulectomy patients are completely edentulous, it is frequently difficult to treat them with a conventional removable prosthesis, and then an application of oral implant is required.
This study reports a completely edentulous hemimandibulectomy patient complaining of unstable denture of the mandible which could be satisfactorily reconstructed with a fixed bridge on the osseointegrated implant(Brånemark implant).
Since a 69-year-old complete edentulous male had received hemimandibulectomy on the right side with out jaw reconstruction for radical cancer therapy, he hadn't been rehabilitated with a removable prosthesis satisfactorily, and two years after hemimandibulectomy Brånemark implant was applied to the prosthetized mandible. Five months after four fixtures were installed in the anterior and the left premolar portions of the residual mandible, an abutment operation and subsequent prosthetic treatment were carried out successfully.
We occasionally performed various prosthodontic and physiologic examinations to know the effectiveness of oral implant bridge, and then we ascertained that Brånemark implant is a very effective prosthetic measures in such patients as these received hemimandibulectomy.
