Rehabilitation of single finger amputation with customized silicone prosthesis

Finger amputations are common in accidents at home, work, and play. Apart from trauma, congenital disease and deformity also leads to finger amputation. This results in loss of function, loss of sensation as well as loss of body image. Finger prosthesis offers psychological support and social accept...

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Autores principales: Yadav, Niharika, Chand, Pooran, Jurel, Sunit Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5242083/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28163487
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-5950.196141
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description Finger amputations are common in accidents at home, work, and play. Apart from trauma, congenital disease and deformity also leads to finger amputation. This results in loss of function, loss of sensation as well as loss of body image. Finger prosthesis offers psychological support and social acceptance in such cases. This clinical report describes a method to fabricate ring retained silicone finger prosthesis in a patient with partial finger loss.
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spelling pubmed-52420832017-02-03 Rehabilitation of single finger amputation with customized silicone prosthesis Yadav, Niharika Chand, Pooran Jurel, Sunit Kumar Natl J Maxillofac Surg Case Report Finger amputations are common in accidents at home, work, and play. Apart from trauma, congenital disease and deformity also leads to finger amputation. This results in loss of function, loss of sensation as well as loss of body image. Finger prosthesis offers psychological support and social acceptance in such cases. This clinical report describes a method to fabricate ring retained silicone finger prosthesis in a patient with partial finger loss. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5242083/ /pubmed/28163487 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-5950.196141 Text en Copyright: © 2016 National Journal of Maxillofacial Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Rehabilitation of single finger amputation with customized silicone prosthesis
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