Resumen de Fabricating a Maxillary Obturator Using an Intraoral Digital Impression:: A Case History Report

Jin-Hong Park, Sang-Wan Shin, Jeong-Yol Lee, Ki-Sun Lee

• Digital impressions can be a useful option that reduces patient discomfort and simplifies clinical procedures such as accurate impression recordings. In this report, a patient with a partial maxillectomy was managed with a metal frame fabricated from a digital impression through an intraoral scanner. The final impression employed the altered cast technique for the fabrication of the obturator.