Impact of Prosthodontic Treatment on the Oral Health-related Quality of Life in Mucormycosis Patient: A Case Report

Mucormycosis is a fulminant fungal infection that occurs most often in diabetic and immunocompromised patients, including those with hematologic malignancies. Patients with maxillary resections present a challenge situation for the maxillofacial prosthodontist. Prosthodontic rehabilitation of such p...

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Autores principales: Inbarajan, Athiban, Natarajan, Shanmuganathan, Thirumalai Thangarajan, Saravanan, Seenivasan, Madhankumar, Banu, Fathima, Anand Kumar, V
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Psychology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6318130/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30648035
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3493
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author Inbarajan, Athiban
Natarajan, Shanmuganathan
Thirumalai Thangarajan, Saravanan
Seenivasan, Madhankumar
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Anand Kumar, V
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description Mucormycosis is a fulminant fungal infection that occurs most often in diabetic and immunocompromised patients, including those with hematologic malignancies. Patients with maxillary resections present a challenge situation for the maxillofacial prosthodontist. Prosthodontic rehabilitation of such patients presents a significant challenge in restoring speech, deglutition and mastication, and respiration. This report discusses the impact of post-surgical management of mucormycosis patient with prosthodontic treatment and evaluating the oral health-related quality of life using the Oral Health Impact Profile-14 (OHIP-14) questionnaire.
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spelling pubmed-63181302019-01-15 Impact of Prosthodontic Treatment on the Oral Health-related Quality of Life in Mucormycosis Patient: A Case Report Inbarajan, Athiban Natarajan, Shanmuganathan Thirumalai Thangarajan, Saravanan Seenivasan, Madhankumar Banu, Fathima Anand Kumar, V Cureus Psychology Mucormycosis is a fulminant fungal infection that occurs most often in diabetic and immunocompromised patients, including those with hematologic malignancies. Patients with maxillary resections present a challenge situation for the maxillofacial prosthodontist. Prosthodontic rehabilitation of such patients presents a significant challenge in restoring speech, deglutition and mastication, and respiration. This report discusses the impact of post-surgical management of mucormycosis patient with prosthodontic treatment and evaluating the oral health-related quality of life using the Oral Health Impact Profile-14 (OHIP-14) questionnaire. Cureus 2018-10-24 /pmc/articles/PMC6318130/ /pubmed/30648035 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3493 Text en Copyright © 2018, Inbarajan et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Psychology
Inbarajan, Athiban
Natarajan, Shanmuganathan
Thirumalai Thangarajan, Saravanan
Seenivasan, Madhankumar
Banu, Fathima
Anand Kumar, V
Impact of Prosthodontic Treatment on the Oral Health-related Quality of Life in Mucormycosis Patient: A Case Report
title Impact of Prosthodontic Treatment on the Oral Health-related Quality of Life in Mucormycosis Patient: A Case Report
title_full Impact of Prosthodontic Treatment on the Oral Health-related Quality of Life in Mucormycosis Patient: A Case Report
title_fullStr Impact of Prosthodontic Treatment on the Oral Health-related Quality of Life in Mucormycosis Patient: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Impact of Prosthodontic Treatment on the Oral Health-related Quality of Life in Mucormycosis Patient: A Case Report
title_short Impact of Prosthodontic Treatment on the Oral Health-related Quality of Life in Mucormycosis Patient: A Case Report
title_sort impact of prosthodontic treatment on the oral health-related quality of life in mucormycosis patient: a case report
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6318130/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30648035
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3493
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