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#52654 06-19-2002 07:15 AM | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 3 Member | OP  Member
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#52655 06-19-2002 08:49 AM | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,918 Likes: 66 OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,918 Likes: 66 | An obturator is a prosthetic device which is used to close off the sinus cavity from the oral cavity after surgery creates an open space between them. Children/people who have cleft palate defects wear them as well as people who have had the palate removed during surgery. After a maxillectomy, when part or all of the palate is removed, a removable obturator is fabricated. It may extend into the soft palate area, and may also have a metal framework besides the plastic palatal portion which aids in attaching it to any remaining natural teeth for support. For completely edentulous patients a full upper denture is fabricated that has the obturator on the tissue side of the denture. Next week we should have up another section in the dental portion of the web site up and visible which is on oral reconstruction. Pictures of obtuators will appear there.
Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
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