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- Title
Microstomia prevention appliance: Boon for burn patients.
- Authors
Dixit, Anusha
- Abstract
Microstomia is a condition with a small oral aperture that leads to functional impairment and compromised esthetics. The most common cause of microstomia in children is due to perioral electrical or chemical burns. Healing of such burns leads to contracture of perioral tissue due to the sphincteral action of the orbicularis oris muscle leading to microstomia. Lip contracture can cause dental dysplasia, lingual inclination, and crowding of teeth, resulting in an anterior crossbite or overbite. Treatment of such cases requires a multidisciplinary approach such as surgery, physiotherapy, and appliance therapy. Early conservative appliance therapy with no surgical consideration for 1 year is considered the best approach. These appliances can be classified as static or dynamic, intraoral or extraoral, fixed or removable. Static devices act as commissural splints, and dynamic devices provide retraction, which prevents contracture while healing and prevents microstomia. However, the selection of certain appliances requires planning, keeping in mind efficacy, practicality, ease of fabrication, cost effectiveness and various other patient factors like age, dentition status, and compliance. This poster presents various microstomia prevention appliances.
- Subjects
BURN patients; ELECTRICAL burns; CONSERVATIVE treatment; COST effectiveness; ELECTRICAL injuries; HEALING; CHEMICAL burns
- Publication
Journal of the Indian Society of Pedodontics & Preventive Dentistry, 2024, Vol 42, pS241
- ISSN
0970-4388
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.4103/jisppd.jisppd_59_24