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not be achieve d and patie nts searched for bett er treatment
options. In one of the patients, the tumour resection left
no room for a bone graft or implants. With the aid of the
skull base implant, this complex and challenging patient
was rehabilitated. The most significant and immediate
benefit of this approach is the ability to extend the pros-
thesis anchorage points into the mid-palatal area, thus
minimizing the can tilever forces on teeth and implants in
residual ridge tissue. The skull base implant supplements
this concept by creating effective retention in an ana-
tomical area that otherwise could be overlooked for im-
plant placement.
4. CONCLUSION
A skull base implant is a new concept of bone an-
chorage using long implants. It can be a solution for pa-
tients presenting with prosthetic and implant challenges
due to sequelae of a maxillectomy, failed reconstruction
combined with scaring and fibrosis due to previous
treatments, and a lack of bone in the maxilla. In most
cases, judicious use of the remaining bone (sometimes
distant to the maxilla) may be a solution for these pa-
tients.
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