Management of cases with severe functional defects resulting from trauma cancer surgery or developmental defect such as cleft palate or craniofacial anomalies.

These clinical presentations frequently require treatment approaches with built in contingencies that anticipate future treatment requirements over the lifetime of the proposed restorations.
Avoiding compromises in function, chewing swallowing and speech, as well as appearance, may require a significant amount of planning between the various team members.

Where there has been considerable loss of both had and soft tissue Prosthodontists possess the special skills for replacement of maxillofacial structures with the necessary expert laboratory support from design and fabrication perspectives.