Effect of Nursing Cooperation on Restoration of Maxillary Defect with Hollow Obturator

• 作 者: LuLei;ZhangXueling;WuShuyi;
• 机 构: Department of Prosthodontics,Guanghua School of Stomatology,Hospital of Stomatology,Sun Yat-sen Univ
• 出 处: 2014xi`an Conference of International Society for Maxillofac
• 发表日期: 2014年期

　　Purpose: To explore the effect of nursing cooperation on restoration of maxillary defect with hollow obturator.Methods: 24 patients suffering from acquired maxillary defect were chosen and restored with maxillary hollow obturator by specialized training maxillofacial prosthodontist and nurse.The nurse kindly provides psychological nursing,oral health education,oral hygiene instruction and mouthopening training before restoration,and well prepared the sterile appliances and strengthened chairside psychological nursing during the whole restoration procedure.Finally,satisfaction survey and psychological condition were estimated after obturator restoration.Results: All of the obturators had good retention,favorable stability,nice masticatory function and could obviously improve patients facial appearance.Results showed that the satisfaction degree of patient to the obturators was 100%,as well as the one of patients to the nursing cooperation.91.67%of the patients remarkably improved their psychological condition when 8.33%of the patients also had slight improvement.Conclusion: Good nursing cooperation was an important pledge to make obturator prostheses of maxillary defect successful.