Enhancing Facial Esthetics in a Complete Denture Patient Having Sunken Cheeks With a Hollow Fixed Cheek Plumper: A Case Report

In today’s world, facial esthetics play a vital role in social and professional life. Prosthodontic rehabilitation deals not only with the replacement of missing teeth but also with enhancing facial aesthetics. Aging brings a lot of changes to the face, the most common being sunken cheeks. This arti...

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Autores principales: Colvenkar, Shreya, Pathipaka, Suman, Siva Santosh Babu, Devarakonda, Vijay Kumar, Kasukurthi, Prakash, Rathod
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Dentistry
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9428412/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36060379
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27539
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author Colvenkar, Shreya
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description In today’s world, facial esthetics play a vital role in social and professional life. Prosthodontic rehabilitation deals not only with the replacement of missing teeth but also with enhancing facial aesthetics. Aging brings a lot of changes to the face, the most common being sunken cheeks. This article describes a simple, low-cost, and non-invasive method for the fabrication of non-detachable cheek plumper for edentulous patients. The two-in-one prosthesis not only replaces the missing teeth but also improves facial aesthetics.
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spelling pubmed-94284122022-09-03 Enhancing Facial Esthetics in a Complete Denture Patient Having Sunken Cheeks With a Hollow Fixed Cheek Plumper: A Case Report Colvenkar, Shreya Pathipaka, Suman Siva Santosh Babu, Devarakonda Vijay Kumar, Kasukurthi Prakash, Rathod Cureus Dentistry In today’s world, facial esthetics play a vital role in social and professional life. Prosthodontic rehabilitation deals not only with the replacement of missing teeth but also with enhancing facial aesthetics. Aging brings a lot of changes to the face, the most common being sunken cheeks. This article describes a simple, low-cost, and non-invasive method for the fabrication of non-detachable cheek plumper for edentulous patients. The two-in-one prosthesis not only replaces the missing teeth but also improves facial aesthetics. Cureus 2022-07-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9428412/ /pubmed/36060379 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27539 Text en Copyright © 2022, Colvenkar et al. https://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 Dentistry
Colvenkar, Shreya
Pathipaka, Suman
Siva Santosh Babu, Devarakonda
Vijay Kumar, Kasukurthi
Prakash, Rathod
Enhancing Facial Esthetics in a Complete Denture Patient Having Sunken Cheeks With a Hollow Fixed Cheek Plumper: A Case Report
title Enhancing Facial Esthetics in a Complete Denture Patient Having Sunken Cheeks With a Hollow Fixed Cheek Plumper: A Case Report
title_full Enhancing Facial Esthetics in a Complete Denture Patient Having Sunken Cheeks With a Hollow Fixed Cheek Plumper: A Case Report
title_fullStr Enhancing Facial Esthetics in a Complete Denture Patient Having Sunken Cheeks With a Hollow Fixed Cheek Plumper: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Enhancing Facial Esthetics in a Complete Denture Patient Having Sunken Cheeks With a Hollow Fixed Cheek Plumper: A Case Report
title_short Enhancing Facial Esthetics in a Complete Denture Patient Having Sunken Cheeks With a Hollow Fixed Cheek Plumper: A Case Report
title_sort enhancing facial esthetics in a complete denture patient having sunken cheeks with a hollow fixed cheek plumper: a case report
topic Dentistry
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36060379
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27539
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