Unilateral rostral
maxillectomy and bilateral rostral mandibulectomy (BRM) with adequate margins have been considered curative surgical procedures and the best approaches to treat this neoplasia (AUER, 2006; WITTE, 2014).
Robinson used horseshoe magnets for the retention of an upper denture and obturator in a total
maxillectomy case.
An 80-year-old woman presented with a history of T4N0 mucoepidermoid carcinoma in the nasal cavity (figure 1) treated with
maxillectomy with multiple free-flap reconstructions and postoperative radiation approximately 5 years earlier.
Faria (2004) reported that
maxillectomy is not the only possible treatment of choice in cases of severe facial injury and was successful in reimplantation of maxilla after traumatic injury in dog but with tip of nose slightly tilted upwards post-operatively.
Key Words: Buccal fat pad, Bichat's fat pad, oral defects, oral defects reconstruction,
maxillectomy defects.
Ahmed B, Mehmood H and Yazdanie N, Hollow bulb obturator: A blessing for
maxillectomy patients Pak Oral Dent J.
Total
maxillectomy is the recommended surgical procedure.
Complete resection using endoscopic approaches (n=20) or open surgery (n=11), for example, lateral rhinotomy with medial
maxillectomy, were performed.
A superstructure
maxillectomy with left orbital exertion was performed.
1,4) Several approaches have been described, including simple curettage, functional endoscopic sinus surgery, a sublabial Caldwell-Luc type approach, and even radical
maxillectomy.
At the age of 52, total
maxillectomy was performed for the diagnosis of ACC of the right maxillary sinus.
A left medial
maxillectomy and ethmoidectomy was performed.
