Abstract
Edentulism has a series of detrimental effects on oral and overall health. Oral repercussions include the well-known residual ridge resorption, as well as impaired masticatory ability, an unhealthy diet, social limitations, and poor oral health quality of life. Pre-schoolers with edentulism with complete dentures are uncommon, although they do exist. When this unusual ailment is combined with cleft lip and palate, the situation becomes much more difcult. Since this is a rare condition, the growing child's condence is negatively affected when he/she is compared to other youngsters of similar age groups. Hence, it is the responsibility of a clinician to give them better treatment that will enable the child to grow up in a healthy and happy environment. In such conditions, the most appropriate treatment of choice for a developing child is a removable prosthesis. Removable denture prostheses contributed immensely to the eld of prosthodontics. This is a case report of prosthetic rehabilitation of a 6-year-old child with anodontia on the maxillary arch and hypodontia on the mandibular arch associated with cleft lip and palate.
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