Tratamientos realizados por el programa de prótesis maxilofacial, en Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche, durante el periodo 1999-2000

Abstract

In Mexico, many people need prosthetic rehabilitation in some part of their faces. Nowadays there are people with disability in the craniofacial region in a proportion of 5 to 1,000, caused by congenital ethiology and 8 to 1,000 caused by accidental or traumatic deformity in all ages and sexes. This need is increased in the Yucatan peninsula were the Leishmaniasis or climatic factors, like environmental humidity, increase the incidence and prevalence of the defects that require prosthetic rehabilitation. This paper describes the clinical records of patients from the Prosthetic Maxillofacial Program, carried out in Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche, Mexico, during the period 1999-2000. The objective was to present the cases by age, sex, work description and the place of residence of these people with the causes of the loss of the affected organ. Of the treated patients, it was found that men required more of this service, the most frequent affection being the loss of the ocular globe, caused mainly by the retinoblastom.