The need of buccomaxillofacial prosthesis in Matanzas. Year 1999

Abstract

Functional and esthetic rehabilitation to patients with deformities or lost face structures has proven to be very difficult .In order to achieve a real success,it was necessary to establish an exhaustive diagnosis and a highly qualified treatment.We proposed ourselves to find out the need of bucco maxillary-facial prothesis in patients living in Matanzas municipality,as well as the behavior of such prothesis and its relation to sex,age and etiology.A transversal cut descriptive study was carried out taking as reference the population enrolled in the different health areas at this municipality. In order to obtain the sample,a stratified sampling design by conglomerate was apllied,which was made up by 1937 persons and those who met the inclusion criteria had the bucco maxillary facial rehabilitation applied to them. As a result we were able to find out that the need of bucco maxillary-facial existed as a preference to that of the occular type specially in the male sex and young patients.