Rehabilitation of a partial glossectomy patient: Palatal augmentation prosthesis

• Main Authors: Payal Rajender Kumar (Author), Anurag Hasti (Author), H G Jagadeesh (Author), Bishwachandra Thoudam (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Tongue-palate contact is necessary for the production of normal speech, and the proper location of the tongue on the palate during certain sounds is important. Partial glossectomy leads to difficulty in tongue-palate articulation during speech, and it becomes difficult for a patient to reach the pal...