Publications by authors named "Rafael Flores-Ruiz"

Background: To evaluate the evolution of patients rehabilitated with endosseous implants after oral cancer treatment.

Material And Methods: An observational retrospective study was carried out between 1991 and 2011 with a sample consisting of patients with oral cancer who had been referred for rehabilitation to the Prosthetics Rehabilitation Unit from the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Unit of the Virgen del Rocío University Hospital. All these patients have overcome oral cancer, and have a five-year follow-up after their oral rehabilitation.

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Background: Radical surgical resection as a treatment modality for oral cancer often leads to an extensive deficit in both the maxillary and mandibular levels, where the use of a palatal obturator prosthesis (POP) or removable partial denture (RPP). The aim of this study was to evaluate the treatment with POP and RPP in patients treated for oral cancer in the Unit of Prosthetic Rehabilitation of the University Hospital Virgen del Rocío in a period of 20 years.

Material And Methods: Retrospective descriptive study during the years 1991 and 2011 analyzing oral cancer type, characteristics, treatment and follow-up.

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Introduction: The 2-stage crestal approach to augment the maxillary sinus is a little-used technique. The aim of this retrospective study was to assess events characterizing stages of this technique after implant placement in the posterior maxilla with residual bone height less than 4 mm and evaluate the marginal bone loss (MBL) changes over time.

Material And Methods: Thirty-three patients underwent unilateral sinus augmentations using the trancrestal technique with mineralized allograft.

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Purpose: Chlorhexidine (CHX) is an antimicrobial agent used in the prevention of tooth decay, periodontal disease, and postextraction alveolar osteitis (AO). Recently, a bioadhesive gel to deliver the active substance, CHX, was introduced. The intra-alveolar placement of the bioadhesive gel allows a more direct and prolonged therapeutic effect of CHX, which is useful in the prevention of AO after extraction of impacted third molars.

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Purpose: Chlorhexidine is an antimicrobial agent used in the prevention of postextraction alveolar osteitis, tooth decay, and periodontal diseases. There are various forms of chlorhexidine application. The most extensively studied is one that uses the rinse as the form of application.

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Retention, that is, a permanent tooth which is unerupted more than a year after the normal age of eruption, is a relatively rare event, except in the case of the third molars and the upper canines. Transmigration is defined as the phenomenon of more than half an unerupted impacted tooth crossing the midline. We report the clinical case of a twenty-year-old patient presenting transmigration of the lower left canine, with a type 4 transmigration pattern (Mupparapu).

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