[Pre-prosthetic plastics of labial vestibule in patients with toothless lower jaws].

Abstract

The acquired practical experience in the treatment of 20 in-patients is shared. All of them had advanced and severe atrophy of alveolar process and the body of mandibule. Two methods of vestibuloplastics were mainly applied: according to K. Schuchardt and the method of H. Pichler. The very good early and late results attained as regards the prosthetic field enabled the accomplishment of functionally fit prosthetic construction.