POSSIBILITIES OF REHABILITATION of patients with oncological diseases of the maxillofacial area using dental implantation

The traditional method of dental rehabilitation of patients with oncological diseases of the maxillofacial area is classical prosthetics using a removable laminar denture. However, this method in most cases demonstrates a low level of efficiency and aesthetics. The article presents the results of a study of the effectiveness of dental rehabilitation of patients with malignant neoplasms of the maxillofacial area and oral mucosa using fixed and conditionally removable dentures supported by installed dental implants. It has been shown that radiation therapy in the presence of a history of maxillofacial cancer is not an absolute contraindication to dental implantation. The fundamental direction of optimizing the rehabilitation of patients with maxillofacial cancer is the development of an algorithm for dental implantation with subsequent prosthetics, which takes into account the indications and contraindications for this operation, the maximum permissible total radiation dose (maximum 70 Gr) and acceptable histomorphological changes in the alveolar bone.