Pre-prosthetic surgery
In cases where the patient cannot hold a fixed prosthesis in the mouth and seeks to make a removable prosthesis, the surgeon must assess the patient’s need to perform preparatory surgery so that the removable prosthesis has maximum stability in the mouth.
The main pre-prosthetic interventions are the removal of excess soft tissue, left over from bone retraction, due to the long absence of teeth and tori, which are bone neo-formations in the palate or inside the lower jaw, which may prevent the prosthesis from descending.