Custom made protective appliance for oral submucous fibrosis.

[oral submucous fibrosis]

Oral submucous fibrosis is a chronic , debilitating disease characterized by gradually increasing fibrosis of oral cavity and pharynx , mainly the buccal mucosa , resulting in trismus . Various flaps have been used to reconstruct the surgical defects following excision of fibrous bands . It is inevitable to prevent these flaps from trauma by occlusion . The main objective of the authors is to introduce a technical innovation used to protect the flaps in the post-operative period . Here , we propose an easy and economical method to protect the flaps .